Phenomenon: Medical schools must equip future physicians to provide equitable patient care. The best approach, however, is mainly dependent on a medical school's context. Graduating students from our institution have reported feeling ill-equipped to care for patients from "different backgrounds" on the Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere are no program evaluation approaches designed for a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It is critical to evaluate the educational impact of COVID-19 to keep administrators informed and guide decision-making. The authors used systems thinking to design an evaluation model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Reviewing elements of a curriculum, such as courses and clerkships in medical school, is an essential part of the quality improvement process. Yet there is a gap in the literature in terms of actual rubrics for evaluating course quality in medical schools.
Methods: This resource describes a course review process and rubric to evaluate course quality: A subcommittee of faculty members and students evaluates goals, content and delivery, assessment, feedback to students, grading, and student feedback for each course with the rubric.