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Dr Shock MD PhD
The course in their third year of med school about the Brains and the Sensory system in which psychiatry participates is a course of at least three months. It’s made of different sub courses which each take about 3 to 4 weeks. These courses are evaluated at the end. That’s to say months after the course ended because the med students are preparing for their exams and teachers are already occupied with other teaching obligations. These evaluations are mostly done by the coordinating medical specialist, most of the teacher are not present during the evaluation. In conclusion: to little to late.
An evaluation after each week would be far more effective, will prevent the recency effect of evaluation after consecutive courses. The recency effect is the greater impact of the last course on the evaluation because of a fresher memory. Others have found a primacy effect: the first impression of a course being the strongest and long lasting and influencing the evaluation the most.
In a recent published study they used twitter for evaluation during the course and compared this evaluation with the evaluation after the whole course. The continuing evaluation is officially called formative evaluation and the evaluation at the end of the whole course is called the summative evaluation. They concluded
First, the …