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An Intervention To Improve The Evaluation Of Clerkship Students, Landon Thompson, Marc Hettlinger, Lynne J. Goebel Jan 2020

An Intervention To Improve The Evaluation Of Clerkship Students, Landon Thompson, Marc Hettlinger, Lynne J. Goebel

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Background: Effective feedback is an important part of formative evaluation of clerkship students, improving student performance by increasing awareness to weaknesses and strengths.

Aim: The aim of this study was to obtain more helpful feedback.

Setting: Internal Medicine third year clerkship rotation at Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, WV.

Participants: The Internal Medicine department has fifty-nine general and subspecialty faculty physicians.

Program Description: We changed the structure of the existing feedback form by requesting written comments at the beginning and asking for specific strengths and areas for improvement, educated faculty, and gave them a milestones card. Three reviewers …