From feedback to reciprocity. Developing a student-centered approach to course evaluation.
Reforms to medical education have refocused curricula on the need to produce primary care physicians through a problem-based, student-centered, community-oriented, and integrated approach to instruction. Course evaluations, originally designed for traditional lecture-based, teacher-centered curricula, provide inadequate input from students to support curriculum planning and change and to determine appropriate mixes of educational methods. At the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, a unique community-centered course, called "Health, Illness and the Community," developed a student-centered course evaluation to provide adequate student input to support curriculum planning and change. A 35-item evaluation was developed to obtain data to identify student concerns, student learning styles, and preferred community agency utilization. The results suggest that student-centered course evaluation can play a role in managing and identifying key relationships in integrated and systematic courses as well as establishing a method for continual improvement.
Louie
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Byrne
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Wasylenki
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D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires