Student Performance Evaluation

During the third and fourth year of MD Program curriculum at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, faculty assess students in areas such as clinical skills, professionalism and interpersonal communication.

This clinical evaluation tool is used to measure student achievement of the clinical competencies and the clerkship-specific goals and objectives.

With the UW School of Medicine and Public Health's move toward building a competency-based curriculum with performance-based assessment of competencies, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency structure was adopted when developing the new evaluation tool.

The goals are to support the continuum of medical education, linking undergraduate and graduate education, and to address the national calls for medical education reform using the ACGME competency framework.

Each student will be assessed using this evaluation tool in every clerkship. The clinical evaluation grade is one component of the student's final clerkship grade. Each clerkship director will orient students to their grading structure during orientation.