Definitions / Levels of Achievement / Assessment criteria
A. Level One
Students exhibit the following skills within structured settings, such as medical school courses: framing questions, utilizing modem information-searching modalities, organizing data, compiling and using information.
Students demonstrate basic skills in self-assessment, including the ability to openly and critically evaluate verbally and in written form one's personal performance on a variety of clinical and academic tasks.
Students recognize any problems in their learning, and seek assistance as necessary.B. Level Two
Students can identify, analyze, and effectively apply relevant scientific/medical literature.
Students should maintain a portfolio containing special projects that required a literature search, or evidence of independent research and study.
Self-assessment abilities at this level should be reliable and valid, displaying some congruity with external evaluations from faculty and standardized examinations.C. Level Three
Students show high enthusiasm for learning, actively pursuing learning opportunities.
They exhibit proficiency in identifying and analyzing important scientific/medical literature, asking all relevant questions, recognizing potential pitfalls, identifying solutions, critically reviewing options, and implementing correction through further study.
A. Student recognizes personal limits of knowledge, experience; actively pursues information necessary to understand and solve diagnostic and therapeutic problems.
B. Applies acquired knowledge effectively.
C Demonstrably identifies and analyzes relevant scientific/medical literature.