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KMID : 1034020170190010047
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Korean Medical Education Review
2017 Volume.19 No. 1 p.47 ~ p.55
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Structured Assessment to Evaluate a Family Medicine Clerkship Program
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Park Eun-Ju
Lee Sang-Yeoup
Im Sun-Ju
Yune So-Jung
Kam Bee-Sung
Baek Sun-Yong
Kim Yun-Jin
Woo Jae-Seok
Lee Jeong-Gyu
Jung Dong-Wook
Lee Yu-Hyeon
Tak Young-Jin
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a 3-week family medicine clerkship program based on the results of an online survey taken by the students (N=127) and a structured interview with a focus group (n=10), aimed to improve the quality of the clerkship program. The online survey contained questions pertaining to goals, schedule, contents, arrangement, atmosphere, environment, evaluation, and satisfaction regarding the clerkship. The focus group interview addressed the schedule and achievements of the program. Scores were reported on a 5-point Likert scale. Most students were highly satisfied with the overall quality of the clerkship. The structured interview results showed that 97.6% of the clerkship program was executed according to the schedule. The focus group reported a perfect score of 5 points on several measures including: accomplishment of the educational goals of the family medicine clerkship, providing many chances to obtain medical histories and perform physical examinations on real patients, experience with various
symptoms and diseases, positive attitudes of faculty members when teaching, notification of the guidelines for evaluation beforehand, well-constructed and effective clerkship schedule, and reflection of student feedback. However, the focus group gave low scores on: support for health accidents of students, access to patient information, enough opportunities to practice clinical skills, appropriate rest facilities for students, and fairness of clerkship evaluation process. In conclusion, the structured evaluation performed after the 3-week clerkship program motivated students and helped them ensure an efficient clerkship. This structured evaluation also suggested basic data to make the professor who is subject of the assessment. This study shows that structured assessment is an effective method which can be used to improve the quality of clerkships.
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KEYWORD
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Family practice, Clinical clerkship, Self-evaluation programs, Focus groups, Surveys and questionnaires, Feedback
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