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UND SMHS ASKS FOR PHYSICIAN SUPPORT TO ASSESS STUDENT CLINICAL SKILLS

Posted 8/21/18 (Tue)

UND SMHS Asks for Physician Support to Assess Student Clinical Skills
 

UND SMHS relies on clinical faculty and other volunteer preceptors to help educate, train, and evaluate our medical and allied health students. One particularly urgent need the school has now is for grading student clinical skills exams.
 
Assessing each clinical skills event requires six to ten physician preceptors; securing a full complement of graders to view and grade student skills live can be very challenging for us at times. If we can't get enough graders, we can't assess all of our students and they cannot advance on in their studies.
 
But this challenge is also an opportunity for physicians.

Opportunities for precepting/grading can take as little as one hour at a time of your choosing with no required travel. Exams are now video-recorded and grading can be done remotely at a time that works with your schedule.
 
UND SMHS encourages physicians to consider serving as a "video" grader for SMHS medical students from your home sites. For physicians who are interested, UND SMHS will provide training as well as educational credit along with monetary compensation.
 
If appointed as a clinical faculty member in an appropriate clinical department, some benefits include:

• Access to our medical library and research database
• Access to TeachingPhysician.org which offers videos, tips and links to pertinent topics.
• A 10% discount at the UND Bookstore
• Free access to SMHS "medical media," for work-related projects including posters, flyers and illustrations for research

Your participation in the SMHS Simulation Center Preceptor Program would go a long way toward helping reduce the workload on the small number of existing physician preceptors and ensure that the next generation of North Dakota physicians is getting the best and most timely training and assessment possible.
 
If you are interested in being a video grader, please contact Dawn Drake at 701-777-4028 or email dawn.drake@med.und.edu.
 
Jon W. Allen, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Simulation and Clinical Skills

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