Improving clinical clerkship education by implementing a system of medical student's evaluations and feedbacks in a multidisciplinary teaching hospital

Administrators require reliable, valid, and practical methods for evaluating the quality of medical education in each department especially for clerkship which is likely to be neglected. This study presents a periodic systematic questionnaire survey of medical students as an administrative tool for evaluation of clerkship education quality.
A 16 questions questionnaire was designed based on World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) global standards, considering student’s educational satisfaction of a hospital department. After assessment of validity and reliability (total score = 80), the questionnaires were completed by all 2771 medical students taking courses in different departments of a tertiary hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2007-2012) . Periodic feedbacks were provided to clerkship program directors based on the survey results.
Our study showed Medical Student's Systematic Feedback made departments improve their program and led to significant changes in mean scores of student satisfaction from 47.9 ±16.5 to 57.4±15.6 (P Periodic systematic feedback system is a feasible method for continuous evaluation of clerkship programs and can lead to improvement of educational performance of teaching hospitals.