Clerkship Grading Committees: the Impact of Group Decision-Making for Clerkship Grading

Variation and imprecision of clerkship grading in U.S. medical schools.

PURPOSE Despite standardized curricula and mandated accreditation, concern exists regarding the variability and imprecision of medical student evaluation. The authors set out to perform a complete review of clerkship evaluation in U.S. medical schools. METHOD Clerkship evaluation data were obtained from all Association of American Medical Colleges-affiliated medical schools reporting enrollme...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

The Complexity of Clerkship Scheduling

Medical students must complete a clerkship program in their fourth year. Individual students have preferences for the clerkships to which they are assigned. However, individual hospitals also have capacities on how many students may be assigned to each clerkship. The problem of scheduling medical students to clerkships is formalized. The problem is then placed in a theoretical framework, and th...

Learning environment: the impact of clerkship location on instructional quality.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Students provide variable feedback on instructional quality at ambulatory training sites. We hypothesized several strengths and weaknesses of placing students at resident and non-resident training sites, including differences in faculty behaviors, patient characteristics, work environment, learning opportunities, and levels of student engagement. We systematically asse...

Individualization of Clerkship Teaching

In recent years medical educators have explored a number of educational techniques in an effort to improve current teaching practices. Introduction of clinical clerkships a number of years ago provided an opportunity for greater individualization of student experience during the third and fourth years. Instead of attending formal didactic lectures and demonstrations, the student was given the r...