LUMEN - Psychiatry

The contributions of each educational exercise towards the overall clerkship grade are as follows:

	Max points	Percentage of grade
Attending/Service Evaluation	150	150/435 = 34.4%
Clerkship Exam	150	150/435 = 34.4%
SPPAM presentation	75	75/435 = 17.2%
Video OSCE	30	30/435 = 6.8%
Standardized Patient Exercise	30	30/435 = 6.8%

The final grade assignment is based on the total number of points earned out of the 435 maximum.

The final grade for the psychiatry clerkship will be Honors, High Pass, Pass, Fail, Unsatisfactory or Incomplete per the SSOM grading system.

Approximately the fifth week of the clerkship, students will provide their supervising clinical attending(s) with the clinical evaluation form from their orientation packet. The supervising clinical attending is asked to fill out the clinical evaluation form and then review the evaluation with the student. At this time, if the student has any concerns regarding the clinical evaluation he/she was given, he/she may discuss this with the supervisor. When the clinical evaluations have been reviewed, both the attending and student sign the form. The attending is responsible for returning the form.

While the supervising clinical attending is ultimately responsible for the evaluation, they are encouraged to consider the resident’s input. In the event the student has worked with more than one attending, the attendings may do a composite evaluation or each attending may fill out a separate evaluation. In the event of multiple attending evaluations, each evaluation will be weighted by the amount of clinical time the student spent with each attending.

Students must pass the clerkship exam to pass the clerkship. A passing grade is 70% or 105/150 questions correctly answered. In the event the student scores less than 105, the student will still pass if their score is within 2 standard deviations of their specific clerkship group’s test mean.

Faculty facilitators or senior resident facilitators will evaluate the individual student presentation. The final numerical evaluation is the average of the SPPAM faculty evaluations. Alternatively, the SPPAM faculty may fill out one composite evaluation for the student’s presentation.

If a student fails the clerkship exam or SPPAM presentation, he/she will receive a grade of U (unsatisfactory) for the clerkship. The student will be given the opportunity to remediate the exam or the SPPAM presentation within 30 working days from the time the grades are submitted to the Registrar’s Office. Upon successful remediation, a revised grade of Pass or Pass* (depending on the original grade) will be submitted to the Registrar’s Office. If the remediation is unsuccessful, the student will fail the Psychiatry Clerkship. This is in accordance with the policy as stated in the Stritch School of Medicine Academic Policy Manual, Part II.

Students will not be required to remediate the Standardized Patient, or Video OSCE due to a poor performance in that particular activity. In the event of an overall clerkship failure, these activities may play a role in the remediation of the clerkship.

The final grade will be reported to the Registrar within 30 days of the last day of the clerkship. Once the Registrar has processed all documentation, they will notify you. The information you get will include the overall grade, mean, and standard deviation as well as the means and standard deviations for each individual component that makes up the overall grade. The purpose for this is to provide you some feedback on how you did on the different educational exercises.