A Pleasure to Work With—An Analysis of Written Comments on Student Evaluations
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METHODS
Pediatrics is a 2-month, required clerkship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The clerkship objectives are based on the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) general pediatric clerkship curriculum.9 The rotation is divided equally between the inpatient and outpatient setting. Since the focus of this study was on faculty evaluation of students, we studied outpatient evaluations only. Inpatient evaluations are completed by the entire ward team (including residents) using
RESULTS
Two hundred and sixty-one evaluations on 157 students were available for coding during the study time frame. Thirteen evaluations were missing. The mean number of evaluations per student was 1.6, with a range of 1–3. Seventeen evaluations (7%) had no comments, with an additional 17 (7%) evaluations omitted from the final analysis because the preceptor's only comment was “unable to judge the student's performance.” The remaining 1017 comments on 227 evaluations provided the data for the analysis.
DISCUSSION
Clerkship evaluations provide students with a summative evaluation of their performance. Optimally, this evaluation should inform audiences regarding the degree to which the student has met the objectives of the rotation as well as document the progress made in accomplishing his/her own personal learning objectives. Given the many responsibilities of faculty, these evaluations are frequently not a priority. Local efforts to improve both the completion and the quality of these evaluations have
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This project was partially funded by a grant from the Learning Resources Subcommittee of the Curriculum and Evaluation Committee, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.