This academic year, we have worked to increase the quality and visibility of formative feedback provided to you in selected courses, thread-based workshops, and in small group clinical sessions.
Leaders of these sessions provide narrative formative feedback to you using a Qualtrics survey tool that lists specific behaviors and skills for the faculty members to comment on. Each of the areas provided for feedback on the form is linked to the relevant YSM educational program objectives (EPOs), so that you can self-assess your progress in meeting milestones and competencies going forward.
Additionally, each course director will now describe formative feedback in the course in the syllabi and in the first session of the course.
Master courses: In all master courses, course directors are responsible for providing opportunities for mid-course feedback on student understanding of course content in the form of a self-assessment or another mechanism (e.g., study questions or quiz questions). In each master course that lasts beyond four weeks, this is done using one or more (depending upon the length of the course) mandatory self-assessment exam.
Clinical Skills Course: Small group instructors provide formative feedback on an ongoing basis. This includes written narrative formative feedback.
Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience: Clinical tutors provide weekly formative feedback after each patient interaction. At the end of the course, the tutors give formative feedback on the entirety of the course. In addition, you receive a formal debriefing with formative assessment after Sim 1 (late fall) and Sim 2 (spring). This feedback is given by faculty Sim facilitators. After completing the “oral presentation skills” workshop, you are given formative feedback based on your performance of the oral presentation by the faculty facilitators of the workshop.
Medical Clinical Experience (MCE): MCE faculty provide the four students they tutor with ongoing formative feedback after observed clinical encounters. They also provide written narrative formative feedback and a forum for feedback on the student’s pre-clerkship OSCE. (We recently changed the name of MCE from Medical Coach Experience to Medical Clinical Experience.)
Jessica Illuzzi, MD, MS
Deputy Dean for Education
Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education