Clinical Assessment Specialists: A New Faculty Role to Improve Clerkship Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ambulatory clerkships, including longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs), face challenges to assessment, including time pressure and clinical demands on preceptors. High-quality clinical assessment is critical to implementing competency-based medical education, generating valid grades, and supporting learning. This importance is further heightened with the new pass/fail scoring for US Medical Licensing Exam Step 1, discontinuation of US Medical Licensing Exam Step 2 Clinical Skills, and the growing concern for bias in assessment.

Methods

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine's LIC spans the first 2 years with 50 students per class. In 2021-2022, the authors created a new faculty role, the clinical assessment specialist (CASp). CASps are hig

SUBMITTER: Mazotti LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10940249 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature