BACKGROUND Workplace-based formative assessments using consultation observation are currently conducted during the Australian general practice training program. Assessment reliability is improved by using multiple assessment methods. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of general practice medical educator assessors and registrars (trainees) when adding random case analysis to direc...

students having opportunities to practice, most particularly when they are supported with frequent feedback and are taught strategies for planning, revising, and editing their compositions. Formative systems incorporating automated writing scoring provide the opportunities for students to write, receive feedback, and then revise essays in a timely iterative cycle. This chapter provides an analy...

Two of the note-books of William Beaumont, now in the possession of Washington University College of Medicine, have been reproduced, misspellings and all, in their entirety. The first of these note-books is Beaumont's medical note-book containing excerpts from medical authors, case histories, comments on Army medicine, prescriptions, and descriptions of methods for treating diseases. This note-...

BACKGROUND Providing midclerkship feedback to identify students at risk for failing is a Liaison Committee on Medical Education standard. Objective criteria for that feedback are critical. The investigators studied the value of a formative midterm (MT) test in identifying students at risk for failing a surgery clerkship. METHODS A written midclerkship test, which did not contribute to the fin...

Generally speaking, there are two forms of assessment in medical education: formative and summative. Formative assessments happen repeatedly throughout the academic semester. They offer valuable qualitative feedback on students’ current teaching–learning outcomes, and accordingly aid faculty to adjust prospective teaching methodologies in order to enhance students’ subsequent learning outcomes ...

In Pakistan English language is taught from primary to the level of graduation as compulsory subject. A lot efforts have been made by government improve teaching foreign in order achieve proficiency, but unfortunately, it has reported that competency students not up mark. Such a deteriorating situation majorly observed writing skill students. Formative feedback considered powerful tool which en...