Correlation of Narrative Evaluations to Clerkship Grades Using Statistical Sentiment Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Narrative evaluations are essential components of medical student assessment. This study evaluated how well narrative clerkship evaluation word choice correlated with an assigned letter grade.

Methods

One hundred clerkship evaluations, 50 from family medicine (FM) and 50 from internal medicine (IM), with even distribution of "Honors" and "Near-Honors" among medical students that graduated in 2020 from the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) were examined. A textual sentiment analysis, which evaluates positive and negative word choice, was used to determine each evaluation's collective sentiment. An average sentiment score and character count were calculated for Honors and Near-Honors evaluations from both clerkship disciplines. Sentiment word totals were

SUBMITTER: Rice DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature