Requirements/Grading

EACH SITE DIRECTOR and THE UNC CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ADJUST GRADES AS INDICATED.   IN OTHER WORDS, GRADE CALCULATIONS ARE NOT SIMPLY NUMERIC.  THIS IS TO ASSURE THE BEST CONSISTENCY POSSIBLE.

EVALUATIONS:

General Attending

Inpatient Residents

Outpatient Preceptors

Newborn Nursery Attending and Resident(s)

Teach Attending/Learning Group

(The boxes on the evals are worth 0-4 points, moving left to right at .5 intervals.)

While on the Pediatrics Clerkship, attendings, residents (see "Resident Expectations of Medical Students"), and community preceptors use the evaluations linked above to grade you clinically.  In addition to the clinical evaluations, other graded pieces include write-ups, a site specific participation piece (see below for site variations), a departmental exam, and the NBME Pediatrics Shelf Exam.  The final grade is broken down as follows:

Clinical Grade = 55%

Clinical grade breakdown:

general attending = 32%

inpatient residents = 33%

outpatient preceptors = 20%

newborn nursery attending/residents = 15%

Site Specific Participation = 10%

Chapel Hill = Teach Attending/Learning Group Evaluation

WakeMed =Teach Attending/Learning Group Evaluation

Moses Cone = Chronic Illness Project/Learning Group Evaluation

Charlotte = Learning Group Evaluation

CLIPP Cases = 5%

10 cases = 4.0

8-9 cases = 3.0

6-7 cases = 2.0

< 6 cases = 0

Departmental Exam = 10%

12 Graded Pieces on the Departmental Exam

12 correct = 4.0

11 correct = 3.5

10 correct = 3.5

9 correct = 3

8 correct = 2.5

5-7 correct = 2

4 correct = 1

3 correct = 1

2 correct = 0.5

1 correct = 0.5

0 correct = 0

Shelf Exam = 20%

Exam percentile scores are converted to a 4-point scale:

95-99 percentile = 4.0

85-94 percentile = 3.5

60-84 percentile = 3.0

40-59 percentile = 2.5

20-39 percentile = 2.0

10-19 percentile = 1.5

00-09 percentile = 1.0 = A shelf test score of less than the 10th percentile will result in a Condition grade.  Students who earn less than the 10th percentile on the shelf test but a passing grade overall must retake the shelf test only.

Percentile scores reflect the performance of 13,691 students from US and Canadian LCME-accredited medical schools who took the Pediatrics Subject Test as a final clerkship exam for the first time during the 2004-2005 academic year.

All grade components (converted to a 4.0 scale) are entered into the excel sheet linked here.  The Final Grade scale is:

> 3.5 = HONORS

3.0-3.49 = HIGH PASS

2.0-2.99 = PASS

1.5-1.99 = CONDITION

< 1.5 = FAIL

Also, please turn in the Expected Patient Interaction Checklist.