Annual Clerkship Report

Creighton University School of Medicine

Academic Year

Clerkship:

Submitted by:

Please complete this report and send it to Cassie Eno in the Office of Medical Education within two months of the completion of your clerkship. The report will be forwarded to the Medical School’s Evaluation Committee. Contact Dr. Katie Huggett at 280-2826 if you need assistance preparing your report.

Overall

1.  With what aspects of the clerkship this year were you most pleased? least pleased?

Student Performance

2.  Did student scores on tests and other evaluation measures meet your expectations? To what do you attribute any deviation from the performance you expected?

3.  Was student attendance at clerkship activities satisfactory?

4.  Are you satisfied with the methods for assessing student performance? Did you feel that the students knew what to expect as the clerkship progressed?

Student Comments

5.  Please comment on the student evaluations (numerical) of your clerkship.

6.  Were there any frequently repeated comments, positive or negative, from the student evaluations? Please comment.

Revision of Clerkship Goals and Methods

7.  Please list comment on at least one change you made based on student feedback.

8.  Would you recommend any change in the clerkship content? For example, is there too much material in the clerkship? Or, conversely, do factors such as time constraints or lack of resources force the omission of important material?

9.  Do you see any advantage to changes in the sequence of presentation of the material?

10.  Were there any skill or knowledge areas in which the students did not come into your clerkship with the preparation you expected? Conversely, did you notice any unnecessary overlap with other clerkships?

11.  Do you plan to change current or introduce new teaching methods? Would there be any benefit to changing the proportion of time devoted to the different clerkship activities?

Faculty Performance

12.  Are you pleased with clerkship faculty (a) involvement in planning the clerkship, (b) teaching effort, and (c) evaluation of students (specifically: timely and regular feedback to students and submission of student assessment forms by the deadline)?

Plans for Course Improvement

13.  Will you do anything not mentioned above to change or improve the clerkship?

Evaluation Committee Report

14.  Please reflect on the most recent Evaluation Committee Report to the Educational Policy Committee on this course. Comment on the findings and recommendations and discuss changes made to the course as a result.

NBME Subject Exam Scores

15.  Please comment on recent Shelf Exam performance data and describe how this course will contribute to improving scores.

Office of Medical Education

16.  What can the Office of Medical Education or the Educational Policy Committee do to help you and your clerkship?

Any Additional Comments?

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