Key date to remember
- Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024
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Overview of Assessment Systems
LCME Element 9.4 - Assessment System
What: We have a variety of assessment strategies to assess clinical skills, including direct observation of entrustable professional activities, to ensure students meet institutional learning objectives.
Why: Centralizing the assessments supports continuous quality improvement and ensures that all medical students achieve the same educational objectives.
 Call to action:
It is imperative that all medical students are directly observed performing a history and physical exam during each clerkship of the M3 year.
Review the policy on direct observation
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LCME Element 9.4
A medical school ensures that, throughout its medical education program, there is a centralized system in place that employs a variety of measures (including direct observation) for the assessment of student achievement, including students˘ acquisition of the knowledge, core clinical skills (e.g., medical history-taking, physical examination), behaviors, and attitudes specified in medical education program objectives, and that ensures that all medical students achieve the same medical education program objectives.
Source: LCME Functions and Structure of a Medical School 2023-24
