Non cognitive evaluations

[raptor7]

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Hi all,

I'm ending my first year of med school and I've going through professor's evaluations of me. I'm honestly shocked that people I didn't even interact with gave me average ratings, instead of "didn't interact with them." The last thing I want is to have the Dean's letter from my school comment that I am average or below average because of such ratings. Any tips on how to get better non-cognitive evaluations?

 

[puahate]

So is this what med school is? I feel like such a grading philosophy is dangerous...

 

[ciestar]

So is this what med school is? I feel like such a grading philosophy is dangerous...

My school does not do this. Wow..

 

[puahate]

I thought preclinical was straight just quiz and test grades? Where would subjectiveness come to play?

My school does not do this. Wow..

 

[ciestar]

I thought preclinical was straight just quiz and test grades? Where would subjectiveness come to play?

That’s mostly what mine was. I am trying to think what i could have been evaluated on subjectively other than the professionalism stuff, which only comes up if you violate it.

 

[ricksimmonsrafowens]

Hi all,

I'm ending my first year of med school and I've going through professor's evaluations of me. I'm honestly shocked that people I didn't even interact with gave me average ratings, instead of "didn't interact with them." The last thing I want is to have the Dean's letter from my school comment that I am average or below average because of such ratings. Any tips on how to get better non-cognitive evaluations?

what's a "non-cognitive" eval?

e-mail the dean and ask them to not consider evals from people who didn't interact with you. that's just ridiculous.

 

[deleted645092]

I’m a 3rd year and have never even heard of that. I go to a DO school too so you would think they’d be all over that kind of “holistic” evaluation of me as a person.

 

[differentiating]

Hi all,

I'm ending my first year of med school and I've going through professor's evaluations of me. I'm honestly shocked that people I didn't even interact with gave me average ratings, instead of "didn't interact with them." The last thing I want is to have the Dean's letter from my school comment that I am average or below average because of such ratings. Any tips on how to get better non-cognitive evaluations?

How does your school do MSPEs? Have they said that they use preclinical evals for ranking, or do they only use ones in clinical years?

That being said, I’d expect more like it in the future. There are a lot of people who just fill out straight average evaluations to get them out of the way.