February 17, 2025
February 17, 2025
- Clerkship Assessment (of Student): New Form/Process: Dr. Raquel Buranosky presented the work of the Clerkship Directors Subcommittee, which created and approved a revision to the form used by clerkship faculty to assess students in the workplace. The new version alters the item categories, tying them to the six competencies more explicitly, with more detailed and actionable behavioral anchors. Preceptors will be pushed up front to provide summative comments with specific items of feedback, and no longer asked to give a "grade" based on an observation of a learner. These assessments will go through Elentra instead of MedHub, immediately available for students to review; they will be used by clerkship grading committees to help general final clinical and overall grading. There is no change in the proportion of the grade in each clerkship that derives from the clinical assessments. After review and discussion, the Curriculum Committee approved the new approach.
- Artificial Intelligence and Learning at UPSOM: We had an open discussion to follow up on our recent Curriculum Colloquium, which focused on AI in Medical Education. Students shared some of the common uses of AI for learning, and faculty described some of the risks and challenges.
