School of Medicine

WSU-SOM Co-Curricular Credit Programs

Medical Education/Evaluation Committee (ME2)

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1. Goal :
   • To continually improve the School of Medicine curriculum, the effectiveness of teaching and student learning.
     
     
2. Objectives :
• To develop a student small group evaluation mechanism to assess and improve courses, lecturers and student learning.
• To provide evaluation education and experience to students participating in the co-curricular program.
• To provide feedback to course directors, lectures and administration on student suggestions and methods to improve course curriculum and teaching.
• To further validate Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) outcome data.
  
  
3. Student Participation Criteria :
   • Attend a minimum of 3 noon hour Journal Club presentations
   • Participate in evaluation training/education sessions.
   • Assist in the development of course questionnaires.
     ii. Meet with course directors to identify survey questions/needs.
     iii. Meet with administration to identify survey questions/needs.
     iv. Meet with students to identify survey questions/needs.
   • Develop sampling method to identify a cohort of students (15-20) to participate in the course evaluation discussion forum.
   • Organize the student evaluation discussion forums.
   • Lead the evaluation discussion forums.
   • Summarize outcome data.
   • Prepare summary report for School of Medicine course directors and administrators.
   • Report outcome data to course directors and SOM administrators.