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Dedicated Poster
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LP1 - 09
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I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
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Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
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Title
Analyzing patterns of performance across the clerkship learning environment
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Clerkships traditionally span two years of medical school where students integrate their basic science knowledge and skills in clinical rotations. There is evidence in the pre-clerkship setting that a score received by a medical student in weekly team-based learning (TBL) assessments influences their performance in the subsequent assessment. However, the investigation of such trends has not yet been conducted in the clerkship context. This is relevant because, unlike TBL, clerkship assessments have a higher weighting towards final clerkship grades.
Methods
A secondary analysis of anonymized clerkship assessment data was conducted on six core clerkships between 2018 and 2019. A total of 10325 form submissions for 139 medical students were analyzed for the study. After modelling, repeated measures ANOVA and Paired t-tests analyzed for performance within clerkships, while time-series analyses were used to analyze trends across clerkships. Odds ratios were also used to determine the likelihood of score improvement between the first and each successive clerkship.
Results
The score patterns of students in clerkship evaluations indicate that there is a significant improvement as they progress through a clerkship. Similarly, improvement in performance is also noticed across successive clerkships and for different competencies. Lastly, the likelihood of students that obtain the highest score possible on clerkship assessments increases with subsequent clerkships.
Conclusion
These score patterns are concordant with pre-clerkship patterns of performance and suggest that students may modulate their future performance based on previously received evaluation scores.
Keyword 1
Clerkship
Keyword 2
Assessment
Keyword 3
Performance
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Assessment
Assessment
- Formative
- Competency-based assessment
Additional Theme (First choice)
Assessment
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Undergraduate
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Professionalism
Authors
Presenter
Avik Sharma
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
