Evaluating Student Performance

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This chapter discusses the origins, design, implementation, and effects of the Primary Care Curriculum (PCC). It is a first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession. Evaluation methods should be broad enough to provide feedback to the program and to its students on the degree to which program goals are being achieved by students. To optimize the value of evaluation to the student’s future career, its methods should adequately assess those skills the student is expected to demonstrate in later practice. Medical education is plagued by an almost exclusive reliance on fact-oriented, multiple-choice, and short-answer examinations to evaluate students in their preclinical years.

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