The Office of Medical Education’s Assessment team serves several primary functions. It monitors college-wide outcomes—including student, faculty, course, clinical, and program performance data—to support continuous improvement in teaching and learning, as well as to fulfill external reporting requirements. It also manages the effective delivery of examinations to medical students. Additionally, it provides faculty consultations on academic research, survey design, test construction, and item analysis.
The team collects and distributes data on exams, course grades, faculty and preceptor performance, and course and clerkship outcomes to academic and administrative units across the College of Medicine. A key output is the Assessment Analysis Report, which includes internal quality measures developed by the department along with national benchmarks. This report serves as a quality improvement tool, providing outcomes-based feedback to course directors, faculty, period directors, the faculty development director, and senior leadership on the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
Support services provided
- Assist faculty with support for implementing exams into testing software.
- Administer assessments: scheduling, proctoring, accommodations, and test delivery.
- Provide exam scores and coaching reports.
- Meet with faculty to provide quality improvement consultation and feedback on the analysis of exam metric outcomes reports.
- Medical student and curriculum evaluation.
- Analyze internally developed assessments and compare student performance against national benchmarks.
- Maintain test files for review.
- Meet with faculty to discuss overall course and clerkship assessments.
- Provide consultation for academic research.