Definition

The student's portfolio is a collection of materials submitted by the student which represents the student's clinical and learning activities during the clerkship. All students are required to electronically submit (as an email message, email attachment, or on a disk) two patient write-ups, two learning issues, and a completed patient database before final exam day.

Purpose

The purpose of the portfolio is to document the student's data collection and clinical reasoning process, to provide practice in essential written communication skills, and to facilitate the student's self-directed learning by formalizing the process of identification and discussion of learning issues.
 

Criteria

Required patient write-ups are evaluated by the Submission Review Committee according to "Guidelines for Evaluating Patient Write-Ups" listed later in this manual.  Dr. William Newman will evaluate the required learning issues. 
 

Feedback

Students must submit at least one patient write-up per week to the attending physician for review and feedback.  The attending or preceptor may consider these write-ups when completing evaluations of the student's clinical performance, but only those write-ups submitted to the clerkship coordinator will be evaluated for the purpose of determining this portion of the clerkship grade.

Evaluation Procedures

Before the end of Week 4, submit one patient writeup to the campus clerkship administrator on your campus for review during the mid-clerkship feedback session. These write-ups may be copies or revisions of write-ups submitted earlier to the attending physician or preceptor. By the end of the clerkship, the student is required to electronically submit (as an email attachment, email message, or on a disk) two patient write-ups and two learning issues to the Fargo clerkship administrator, Barb Swann, for evaluation. Submitted write-ups will be reviewed by the Submission Review Committee using the criteria listed in this manual. Procedures and evaluation criteria are discussed in a later section of the syllabus.
 

Remediation

A student who receives a summative rating of "Poor" will be required to remediate. Students who receive a "Poor" rating, but have passed all other criteria, will be required to revise existing write-ups, and/or complete new write-ups, until a minimum of two acceptable write-ups have been submitted to the clerkship coordinator. Remediation for students who fail multiple criteria will be at the discretion of the Clerkship Evaluation Committee. Students who pass the remediation exercise will be given a rating of "Satisfactory" and will earn 75 points for the purpose of calculating class rank.