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Dear Students: Evaluations are a critical component of ensuring your high-quality education. As a result, evaluations are a required part of the overall M.D. curriculum. This is why it is imperative that you complete them in a timely manner (please see the evaluation policy below). You will have seven days to complete an evaluation once assigned. If you ever have questions or concerns, please reach out to Alton Lewis (cc6904@wayne.edu). Starting this year, we will be making evaluation results more transparent to students. Once we receive your evaluations, they are provided to a team of individuals, including the course directors who evaluate various components of the course and engage in quality improvement efforts in order to further improve the curriculum. Once this process is complete, we will communicate these findings so that you can see how your feedback helps improve the school and why evaluations are very important to this process. 3.1 WSUSOM EVALUATION OF CURRICULUM POLICY RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDENTS Student engagement in the curriculum is a key part of WSUSOM’s professionalism standards. As such, students are REQUIRED to complete ALL assigned evaluations within a timely manner. Failure to do so is considered “failure to engage” and is considered a professionalism violation. ANONYMITY All data collected from evaluations for analysis and reporting to course directors, instructors and administrators are anonymous and devoid of any identifying information. Honest and professional responses are of the utmost importance. SCHEDULE Notification of evaluation assignments is sent via email. It is the students’ responsibility to check for pending evaluations. Evaluations are scheduled during and at the end of a course or clerkship. Once an evaluation has been posted, students have one week (seven calendar days) to complete the evaluation. NON-COMPLIANCE* Since the data collected from evaluations are a vital component of the school’s continuous quality improvement program, all evaluation assignments require completion. First offense within a given academic year: A narrative evaluation will have to be written that focuses on an aspect of the course that could be improved OR that worked very well. This must be completed one week after the professionalism warning has been issued. Second offense within a given academic year: If the assigned narrative evaluation is not completed within the allotted time specified, a professionalism charge will be cited and become a permanent record on the student's academic profile. The student will also be required to present to the Professionalism Committee. * if a student is unable to complete an evaluation because he or she did not interact with a faculty member or did not attend an activity, the student is required to DECLINE the evaluation. Declining the evaluation is considered to be compliant. Jason Booza, Ph.D. |
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