Grading Policy for the Clerkships
The clerkship director completes an electronic final assessment form for each student in a core clerkship. The form provides narrative comments, grades in individual components and a final summative grade (Appendix E). The narrative comments summarize the student’s clinical performance and, importantly, professional behavior. Comments may also include attendance, rapport with patients and staff and the extent to which the students developed the required competencies for that core. This narrative section offers the faculty the opportunity to provide additional personalized evaluative information beyond the grades. These comments may be quoted in the MSPE. An additional section allows for constructive comments to promote ongoing development that are not used in the MSPE. Students should make every effort to review these comments as soon as possible after completion of a rotation. The opinions of the physicians who have worked with a student are critical for self-reflection and should be a catalyst for ongoing self-directed learning and self-improvement by the student. In particular, constructive criticisms can help a student develop into a more competent physician. Students can review these comments electronically after they complete the student feedback questionnaire. The evaluation forms are on the SGU portal ? (the SGU internal website) under Clinical Evaluation.