| Summary: | contrast with the less structured clinical years. The
following years are centered on clinical experience and less
uniform especially between departments. This variation in
clinical education is anongoing problem in medical education.
An understanding of student time allocation is very important
to determine whether the students are experiencing clinical
education the way the faculty intended.
Objective: To assess student time allocation during clinical
rotation in Faculty of Medicine, University of Gadjah Mada.
Subject:209 Students who have undergone clinical rotation in
Faculty of Medicine, University of Gadjah Mada from 11
departments,
Method:This is a descriptive study using quantitative and
cross sectional design. The students in Faculty of Medicine
University Gadjah Mada who have undergone clinical rotation
completed a questionnaire that recorded the time they spent on
eight clerkship activities over 2 weeks.
Result:The students spent about 7 hourse a day on clerkship
activities. Most time was spent on structurally organized
education (20,09%), followed by observing instructor (15,97%)
and self-study(15,15%). Less time was available for clinical
meetings, independent hospital activities and directly
supervised activities. There was a variety in distribution of
time use in different departments. There was a significant
difference of the unproductive time allocation between
students from year 2007 and non 2007.
Conclusion:Across departments, students in Faculty of Medicine
Gadjah Mada University spent wide variety of time allocations.
The time allocation were dominated by structured activities.
There were little time allocated for supervised patient
interaction and considerable time allocated for observing
instructor and self-study indicated less time allocated for
supervision and direct interaction with patient.
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