9.4 Assessment System

A medical school ensures that, throughout its medical education program, there is a centralized system in place that employs a variety of measures (including direct observation) for the assessment of student achievement, including students’ acquisition of the knowledge, core clinical skills (e.g., medical history-taking, physical examination), behaviors, and attitudes specified in medical education program objectives, and that ensures that all medical students achieve the same medical education program objectives.

Supporting Data

Narrative Response

1. Describe the centralized system that ensures that each student has received instruction in and been assessed on the necessary clinical skills (i.e., history taking and physical examination) during the pre-clerkship phase of the curriculum to be prepared for the clerkship/clinical phase of the curriculum. Describe the methods of assessment (e.g., OSCE, standardized patient assessment, preceptor observation), the clinical skills assessed, and the locations in the pre-clerkship phase of the curriculum where assessment occurs.
2. Describe how the medical school ensures that each student has acquired and can demonstrate the necessary core clinical skills (i.e., history taking and physical examination) during the clerkship/clinical phase of the curriculum to be prepared for the next stage of training. Describe the methods of assessment, the clinical skills assessed and the locations in the clerkship/clinical phase where the assessment occurs.

Supporting Documentation

1. Provide data from school-specific sources (e.g., clerkship evaluations and/or the ISA) on student perceptions that they were observed performing required clinical skills. Include the academic year of the data.

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Notes

This element should not include OSCEs.