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Course Evaluations Overview

The mission of the School of Medicine is to train and educate medical students in a manner that allows them to become the best physicians possible. In an attempt to fulfill this mission, the School of Medicine is constantly looking for ways to improve its curriculum. One of the most powerful tools used to assess the quality and effectiveness of the curriculum is feedback from the students. This information is obtained through two course evaluation processes:

1. An individual course evaluation that is completed and submitted electronically via the Web.
2. An assigned group of students that will undertake an in-depth review of each course. Students are randomly assigned to a group and a leader for each group is appointed. The role of the leader is to coordinate the group evaluation for a particular course. The list of student groups, leaders and assigned courses is provided to students at the beginning of the academic year.

In addition, each first and second year student will be invited to an informal lunch with administrators, including the dean of curriculum and the dean of student affairs, during the school year. These lunches provide another forum for student opinion to be heard by those responsible for curriculum development. Honest and constructive dialogue is welcome and encouraged at these meetings, and in the written course evaluations.

Participation in the course evaluation process is required. Students, who fail to complete the web-based course evaluation within one week of the end of the course, will have a letter placed in their file documenting noncompliance with this requirement. Any time a student accumulates three or more of these letters in one academic year, this will be mentioned in their medical student performance evaluation (dean's letter).