Applying a validated scoring rubric to pre-clerkship medical students' standardized patient notes: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the elimination in 2021 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills test, it is incumbent upon U.S. medical schools to develop local validated assessments of clinical reasoning. While much attention has been paid to summative exams for graduating students, formative exams for pre-clerkship students have not been well studied.

Methods

We applied the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine (UIC-COM) Patient Note (PN) Scoring Rubric to templated PNs written by 103 pre-clerkship students for two cases in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) at the Yale School of Medicine. The rubric consists of four section scores (Documentation, Differential Diagnosis, Justification, and Workup, each scored 1 to 4) and a

SUBMITTER: Gallagher BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10339528 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature