Enhancing Teaching and Assessment in the Clinical Curriculum
Workshop
 

Duration

Two full days (or four half-days)

Synopsis

This two-day workshop focuses on two major responsibilities of the clinical instructor: guiding students' learning with effective teaching strategies and assessing learners' performance. Day one of the program focuses on the faculty members' instructional role, while day two focuses on issues and techniques that influence student assessment.
   
 

Day 1: Clinical Teaching

   9:00   Best Practices for Teaching and Learning in the Clinical
              Environment

This presentation introduces participants to current theory and research related to the question of how adult students learn, including the differences between novice and expert performance, and what learning techniques facilitate the growth of expertise.                                    

10:15   Break

10:30   Helping Students Learn in the Clinical Setting                               

Participants will review the behaviors and strategies of effective clinical teachers, including asking questions to guide student learning and providing prescriptive feedback that shows students how to improve performance.

12:00  Lunch                                                                                                

  1:00   Microteaching (practice teaching role-play)

Participants divide into groups and take turns "teaching" students who are role-played by other participants. Group members observe and provide constructive feedback using a clinical teaching checklist.

   2:30   Break

   2:45   Dealing with Difficult Students       

Participants will identify various types of difficult or problem students, analyze the potential causes for problem behavior, substandard performance and/or apparent low motivation, and learn an intervention strategy to use with difficult students              

  4:15   Workshop Summary and Evaluation   

 
 

Day 2: Evaluation of Students' Clinical Performance

  9:00   Workshop Overview

  9:10   Assessing Clinical Competence 

This presentation provides an overview of performance appraisal and intervention (in the case of substandard performance) and reviews fundamental principles of performance evaluation in clinical or laboratory settings. 

10:20   Break 

10:40   Analyzing and Improving Your Clinical Evaluation System 

Participants learn a process for analyzing components of a student evaluation system including the nature of faculty-student interactions (environment), instruments used to collect evaluation information (e.g., rating scales, checklists), personality-driven and philosophical factors that influence evaluation, triage systems for identifying and helping students in trouble, and mechanisms for making grading decisions based on the evaluation data. Participants then assess their own system of student evaluation and identify problems/concerns.

12:00   Lunch 

  1:00   Designing Clinical Evaluation Instruments (Rating Scales and
             Checklists) 

This presentation will review the characteristics of well-designed clinical evaluation instruments. Participants will use these characteristics to critique examples of evaluation instruments provided by the workshop instructor as well as their own clinical evaluation forms. 

  2:30   Break

  2:45   Improving Consistency Among Evaluators 

Participants evaluate a student's performance (student seen on videotape) and compare their ratings/rationale for ratings. Participants then review factors that produce inconsistency among raters of student performance and discuss strategies for improving rater calibration. 

  4:15   Workshop Summary and Evaluation 

If you would like additional information or would like to schedule this workshop at your institution, please contact the Academy for Academic Leadership.
 

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