Requirements/Grading

For successful completion of this clerkship the student must:

Complete all Grading Requirements

Clinical Assessment:      60%

Clinical assessments are completed by residents, fellows and faculty who have interacted with you in a variety of settings and can attest to your knowledge, skills and/or professionalism.  Please check with your individual sites regarding details on how to collect clinical evaluations.  You must collect a required minimum of 4 evaluations, at least 1 from a faculty member.  Please check your One45 account to ensure that evaluations are being filled out for you.  Any resident, fellow or attending may complete a clinical evaluation for any student with whom they have interacted.  These optional evaluations will not be accepted 14 days after the date of the NBME exam.  **NOTE: These evaluations are graded on a numerical 1-5 scale, so you must subtract 1 from the score(s) you receive in order to convert to the 0-4 scale on which your clerkship grade is based."

Oral Examination:      15%

The oral examination is a short exercise testing a student's competence in the areas of clinical knowledge, differential diagnosis list development, and preliminary management.  You will be presented with standardized case vignettes and asked about evaluation, differential diagnosis and management of the patient.   The exact length of the oral examination may vary among sites. You will be evaluated on your ability to analyze the data given, create a differential, order appropriate diagnostic studies and demonstrate knowledge of the pathophysiology. Chapel Hill students may use this list of topics for study.

Oral Presentation:      5%
Each student will prepare a 10-15 minute talk.  This talk may be a review of a journal article or a brief overview of a clinical topic of interest, depending on the site.  These talks will be precepted by a faculty member and will be presented to the student group.  You will be evaluated on your use of resources, knowledge base and presentation style.

NBME Exam:        20%
Since the OB/GYN Clerkship uses the National Board shelf examination at the end of our clerkship, the Program has a low-end standard cut off passing grade.  A failing grade on the exam is a percentile score below 8% in the corresponding quarter in which you take the exam.  More information about NBME raw scores, percentiles and converting to a final grade can be found here.  A brief content outline and sample questions can be found at the NBME website.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

All students are required to complete the OSCE to complete the clerkship.  The OSCE performance is not counted towards the final grade.  It is designed to provide formative feedback to the student on his/her clinical skills.  If a student is absent for the OSCE, arrangements must be made to make it up at another time when it is being given.

Other requirements for the course

All students are required to complete their clinical log, their task card, and the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Module to complete the clerkship.  Though these items do not contribute mathematically to the final grade, their completion is required for completion of the clerkship.  Student who have not completed these items by 8PM of the last day of the course will receive a grade of INCOMPLETE until they have done so.

Scoring Components for Assigning the Final Grade

The final grade for the course is assigned as below.  ALL parameters must be met.  The Composite score is the final calculated grade.