Table 3.

Contrasting the proportion of students who rated the teaching of the items from the core curriculum as excellent or good (highest versus lowest ranked practices).

	Top Practices		Bottom Practices		All Practices
	Practice 44	Practice 82	Practice 43	Practice 108
	9*	8*	20*	10*	695
Characteristic	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
recognition of frequent diseases	100**	100	45	50	88
prescriptions of medicine	100	100	30	40	72
preventive medicine	89	87	40	20	65
screening	100	75	70	40	68
vaccinations	100	100	65	40	71
family medicine	78	100	30	20	65
home visits	100	87	80	30	79
communication skills	100	100	75	40	87
patient expectations	88	100	80	50	84
caring for chronic patients	88	87	50	10	78
Physical examination	100	100	65	20	73
collaboration with specialists	88	100	20	10	58
average	94	93	54	31	74
Cronbach's alpha	0.86	0.83	0.92	0.94	0.91

* Number of students who evaluated the practice

** Bold: above average evaluation