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Effect of Perceived Level of Interaction on Faculty Evaluations of 3rd Year Medical Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Several factors are known to affect the way clinical performance evaluations (CPEs) of medical students are completed by supervising physicians. We sought to explore the effect of faculty perceived "level of interaction" (LOI) on these evaluations.

Methods

Our third-year CPE requires evaluators to identify perceived LOI with each student as low, moderate, or high. We examined CPEs completed during the academic year 2018-2019 for differences in (1) clinical and professionalism ratings, (2) quality of narrative comments, (3) quantity of narrative comments, and (4) percentage of evaluation questions left unrated.

Results

A total of 3682 CPEs were included in the analysis. ANOVA revealed statistically significant differences between LOI and clinical ratings (p ≤ .001), with mean ratings from faculty with a high LOI significantly higher than from faculty with a moderate or low LOI (p ≤ .001). Chi-squared analysis demonstrated differences based on faculty LOI and whether questions were left unrated (p ≤ .001), quantity of narrative comments (p ≤ .001), and specificity of narrative comments (p ≤ .001).

Conclusions

Faculty who perceive higher LOI were more likely to assign that student higher ratings, complete more of the clinical evaluation and were more likely to provide narrative feedback with more specific, higher-quality comments.

Supplementary information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01307-w.

SUBMITTER: Hartman ND

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368453 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effect of Perceived Level of Interaction on Faculty Evaluations of 3rd Year Medical Students.

Hartman Nicholas D ND Manthey David E DE Strowd Lindsay C LC Potisek Nicholas M NM Vallevand Andrea A Tooze Janet J Goforth Jon J McDonough Kimberly K Askew Kim L KL

Medical science educator 20210527 4

<h4>Introduction</h4>Several factors are known to affect the way clinical performance evaluations (CPEs) of medical students are completed by supervising physicians. We sought to explore the effect of faculty perceived "level of interaction" (LOI) on these evaluations.<h4>Methods</h4>Our third-year CPE requires evaluators to identify perceived LOI with each student as low, moderate, or high. We examined CPEs completed during the academic year 2018-2019 for differences in (1) clinical and profess ...[more]

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