Clerkship Grading Committees: the Impact of Group Decision-Making for Clerkship Grading.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Faculty and students debate the fairness and accuracy of medical student clerkship grades. Group decision-making is a potential strategy to improve grading.

Objective

To explore how one school's grading committee members integrate assessment data to inform grade decisions and to identify the committees' benefits and challenges.

Design

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with grading committee chairs and members conducted between November 2017 and March 2018.

Participants

Participants included the eight core clerkship directors, who chaired their grading committees. We randomly selected other committee members to invite, for a maximum of three interviews per clerkship.

Approach

Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analy

SUBMITTER: Frank AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502934 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature