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Overall Clerkship Grade Policy
Overall Clerkship Grade Policy: The contributions of each educational exercise towards the overall clerkship grade are as follows:
The final grade assignment is based on the total number of points earned out of the 360 maximum. Example: Mean = 315, Standard Deviation=13 Honors: > Mean + 1 Standard Deviation Honors > 328 High Pass: Mean to Mean + 1 standard deviation High Pass 315-327 Pass: < Mean Pass < 315
The final grade for the psychiatry clerkship will be Honors, High Pass, Pass, Fail, Unsatisfactory or Incomplete per the SSOM grading system. Clerkship Clinical Floor Grade Approximately the fifth week of the clerkship, students will provide their supervising clinical attending(s) with the clinical evaluation form from their orientation packet. The supervising clinical attending is asked to fill out the clinical evaluation form and then review the evaluation with the student. At this time, if the student has any concerns regarding the clinical evaluation he/she was given, he/she may discuss this with the supervisor. When the clinical evaluations have been reviewed, both the attending and student sign the form. The attending is responsible for returning the form. While the supervising clinical attending is ultimately responsible for the evaluation, they are encouraged to consider the resident's input. In the event the student has worked with more than one attending, the attendings may do a composite evaluation or each attending may fill out a separate evaluation. In the event of multiple attending evaluations, each evaluation will be weighted by the amount of clinical time the student spent with each attending. Students must pass the clerkship exam to pass the clerkship. A passing grade is 70% or 84/120 questions correctly answered. In the event a student scores less than 70%, the student will still pass if their score is within 2 standard deviations of their specific clerkship group's test mean. Students Presenting Psychiatric Aspects of Medicine (SPPAM) Faculty facilitators or senior resident facilitators will evaluate the individual student presentation. The final numerical evaluation is the average of the SPPAM faculty evaluations. Alternatively, the SPPAM faculty may fill out one composite evaluation for the student's presentation. Competencies: Meeting Expectations, Meetings Expectations with Concerns, Not Meeting Expectations
Clinical Performance Evaluation While the evaluation is not numbered, there are 5 choices for each category. Any evaluation that averages less than "3" will result in a Does Not Meet in the corresponding competency. Any evaluation category that is evaluated as "2" or less, but overall the evaluation is acceptable, will result in a Meets with Concerns in the corresponding competency.
Clerkship Exam Any exam performance that does not pass will result in a Not Meeting Expectations in the Knowledge Competency. Any exam performance that is < 2 points from passing will result in a Meeting Expectations with Concerns in the Knowledge Competency
SPPAM Any SPPAM performance that is < Standard Deviations below the mean will result in a Meeting Expectations with Concerns in the Communication Competency
Clinical Skills-Standardized Patient Any performance that is < Standard Deviations below the mean and <70% will result in a Meeting Expectations with Concerns in the Communication Competency Video OSCE Any performance that is < Standard Deviations below the mean and <70% will result in a Meeting Expectations with Concerns in the Clinical Care Competency
Overall Any performance that is < 2 Standard Deviations below the Mean will result in a Meeting Expectations with Concerns in the competency's) that best match up with the student's performance. The Mean and Standard Deviation will be a rolling Mean from the prior 12 months of clerkship data. Failure of floor performance will result in an overall clerkship failure. IA failing clinical performance evaluation will result in an overall clerkship failure and a need to remediate the clerkship. If a student fails the clerkship exam he/she will receive a grade of U (unsatisfactory) for the clerkship. The student will be given the opportunity to remediate the exam within 30 working days from the time the grades are submitted to the Registrar's Office. Upon successful remediation, a revised grade of Pass will be submitted to the Registrar's Office. If the remediation is unsuccessful, this will result in a failure of the Psychiatry Clerkship and a need to remediate the clerkship. Students will not be required to remediate SPPAM, Standardized Patient, or Video OSCE due to a poor performance in that particular activity. In the event of an irregularity in one of these exercises, that activity may need to be repeated/remediated per the discretion of the Clerkship Director. In the event of an overall clerkship failure, these activities may play a role in the remediation of the clerkship. The final grade will be reported to the Registrar within 30 days of the last day of the clerkship. Once the Registrar has processed all documentation, they will notify you and you can find out your grade. The SSOM grading system requires the grade data (grade ranges, grade cutoffs) to be in a percentage format. End of the Year Review At the end of the academic year, a review is done. In this review an overall mean and standard deviation for the year is calculated. In reviewing at the grades, some students would have received different grades using the full year's data than what they actually received from their individual clerkship. For students who would benefit from the use of the full year's data, their grades are revised to the higher grade. For students who would not benefit from the full year's data and actually get a lower grade, their grades remain what they received from their individual clerkship.
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