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Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024

Overview of Formative Assessment and Feedback

LCME Element 9.7 - Formative Assessment and Feedback

What: The Curriculum Council ensures that each student receives feedback at the midpoint of each course or clerkship.

Why: This supports students’ learning and allows them to course-correct if their performance is lower than they desire.

Call to action:

Course and clerkship directors need to ensure their learning experiences include midpoint feedback. If a learning event is less than four weeks long, they can offer other ways for students to assess their progress.

Clinicians in the clerkships should also provide frequent, high-quality feedback to students on an ongoing basis.

Review the Formative Assessment and Feedback Policy

LCME Element 9.7

The medical school's curricular governance committee ensures that each medical student is assessed and provided with formal formative feedback early enough during each required course or clerkship to allow sufficient time for remediation. Formal feedback occurs at least at the midpoint of the course or clerkship. A course or clerkship less than four weeks in length provides alternate means by which medical students can measure their progress in learning.

Source: LCME Functions and Structure of a Medical School 2023-24