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Many papers on medical education emphasize the idea that obtaining structure through the practice of Oral Case Presentations (OCPs) is essential and efficient to brush up presentation skills. However, psychological resistance to giving a public presentation is an obstacle in learning OCPs. The aim of this survey is to evaluate the educational effect of our teaching method using a playful learning approach for presentation. This study was conducted by using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire for medical students during their clinical clerkship. One hundred twenty eight students participated in this survey. Didactics and small group discussions took place during the first week of clerkship, and participants were asked to give presentations about their original theme during the second week. Questionnaires were distributed before and after the end of each session. The results showed that psychological resistance to presentations decreased, positive feelings increased, and students became more aware of the purpose, place, and subject of their presentations. Each parameter statistically improved at each phase. A playful learning approach is effective in teaching presentations, including OCPs.
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Background: There is an increasing demand for general practitioners capable of examining patients from a broad perspective. Although the training of such doctors is urgently needed, the accreditation system was only recently put into place.Purpose: Our aim was to identify factors that influence career decision-making among doctors who were interested in general practice but chose to be specialists, in addition to finding methods to improve general practitioner training in the future.Method: From April 2017 to April 2018, we conducted semi-structured interviews with five subjects to understand the process leading up to the selection of their current careers. The verbatim records were analyzed using the modified grounded theory approach.Results: The reasons given for choosing specialist careers included "attraction as a field of study", "being relied upon by other doctors", and "the sense of security from having a specialty". Cited barriers to entering general practice included "uncertainty about the future" and "criticism from specialists".Conclusion: Improving the training curriculum for general practitioners will require improvement of the quality of community-based medical education and the general practice board certification system, in addition to the implementation of general practice retraining for specialists.