Narrative Assessments for Courses and Clerkships
Authorizing Body: 课程 Committee
作者: Office of 医疗 教育
发行日期: 2019年7月15日
最后更新: 2020年7月30日
理由是:
To ensure that a narrative description of a medical student’s performance, including their non-cognitive achievement, is included as a component of the assessment in each required course and clerkship of the medical education program whenever teacher-student interaction permits this form of assessment.
Scope and Applicability:
All courses and clerkships within the School of Medicine’s M.D. 课程, in which there is sufficient teacher-student interaction to permit this form of assessment. Sufficient teacher-student interaction is that which allows for direct observation of individual student behaviors across one or more of the non-cognitive competency domains.
Standard 的指导方针:
- In all courses or clerkships in which the teacher-student interaction permits the teachers or instructors to provide descriptive information about a student’s performance, a narrative assessment must be included as part of the formative or summative assessments.
- Assessments based on individual observations of student behaviors should contain a narrative component; these could include peer assessments, faculty assessments, clinical performance assessments, and objective structured clinical exams.
- 在可能的情况下, course and clerkship directors should identify opportunities through which students could be assessed and receive feedback in all competency domains of the clerkship/course.
- A narrative description may constitute a summative portion of the grade in the form of a grade paragraph of the course or clerkship, and thereby become a permanent part of the student record.
- Clerkships or courses, in which a portion of student learning is in the non-knowledge domains, should consider using summative, narrative assessment, i.e. grade paragraphs, to capture student performance in those non-cognitive domains.
- For each semester of the curriculum, the 课程 Committee should identify a minimum number of courses or clerkships which will include summative, narrative assessments that become a permanent part of the student record. Each semester must have at least one course or clerkship that provides students with summative narrative paragraph, ideally at least three.
- For M1 and M2, in courses where possible grade paragraphs will be documented.
- For M3 and M4, all required clerkships will document grade paragraphs.
- 另外, the narrative description may be used to fulfill a formative purpose, guiding learning and used for feedback.
定义:
The term “non-cognitive” is defined as those competency domains essential for physicians that are outside of the knowledge domain, specifically interpersonal and communication skills, patient care skills, practice-based learning and improvement, systems-based practice, interprofessional collaboration, 专业, and personal and professional development.