title: The reliability of medical student ratings of clinical teaching.
abstract: This study estimated the interrater reliability of medical student evaluations of clinical teaching. Data consisted of 1,570 ratings evaluating 147 faculty over a 4-year period in a 3rd-year internal medicine clerkship. The number of ratings a typical faculty member receives in a year was also calculated and used to extrapolate the standard error of measurement for data typically available to evaluate faculty at different time intervals. The data available to evaluate a faculty member after 1 year was not adequate, but improved substantially at the 5- to 7-year mark, when a faculty member is typically evaluated for promotion and tenure.
authors: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA.
authors: D J
authors: DJ
authors: Solomon
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Speer
authors: C J
authors: CJ
authors: Rosebraugh
authors: D J
authors: DJ
authors: DiPette
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards