Assessment of a surgery clerkship’s performance evaluation system

Perceptions of evaluation in longitudinal versus traditional clerkships

“…Despite concerns about the evaluation of student performance in clerkships, the current literature has few, and conflicting, data on preceptor perceptions of evaluation in block clerkship models. One study demonstrated that faculty preceptors in a surgery clerkship generally perceived their evaluation system positively, but voiced concern about whether narratives about students who had performed poorly were appropriately written and about the quality of the criteria used in evaluations 8 . In a qualitative study, preceptors felt that evaluation of professionalism was particularly challenging, suggesting that there is room for improvement 9 .…”