Computerized performance support systems: applications in a family practice clerkship
Whiteside, M.F.; Snell, L.M.; Bedford, J.A.
Family Medicine 26(1): 18-20
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0742-3225 PMID: 8132139 Document Number: 434596
This article describes a computerized performance support system, the Clerkship Learning Expert and Resource Consultant (CLERC), developed to improve the quality and consistency of learning available to medical students in a third-year family practice clerkship. CLERC is an integrated computer system with an interactive knowledge base, software applications, literature search capabilities, and clinical diagnostic software programs. Medical students enrolled in a third-year family practice clerkship use CLERC to access up-to-date clinical information and to complete clerkship assignments.