Students' ratings of instructors in a multidiscipline course.
Multidiscipline courses employing small group bedside teaching techniques are difficult to evaluate. At the University of Ottawa School of Medicine, a simple rating system by the students was employed to monitor a 180-hour clinical methods course that involved lectures, laboratories, and small group teaching at the bedside. This monitoring system allowed course organizers to evaluate over 3,000 hours of teaching provided by nearly 250 instructors in 20 different divisions and departments. Examples are reported in this article which demonstrate how the rating system was used to detect unsatisfactory areas in the course. Analysis of the ratings allowed the course organizers to understand the difficulties better than without it and in most cases to correct them.
D003479:Curriculum; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards