Insightful Practice: a robust measure of medical students’ professional response to feedback on their performance

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Summary of tools used and process followed ^a

Method of feedback	Application	Source	Prepared by
Written	End-of-Block Feedback (see Additional file 1)	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
‘Spot-the-Error’ prescribing application of e-GRID Web-based interactive exercises	Examples of Patient Prescribing Charts^a (see Additional file 2)	Developed for Study	Study Researchers
EMI	Extended matching item format test designed to assess the clinical application of knowledge base	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
OSCE	12 station clinical OSCE including consultations, examinations, procedures and data interpretation.	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
Case Presentation	During Block	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
PowerPoint presentation		Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
Mini-CEX	A structured observation and feedback form used to guide evaluation of student’s consultation and/or examination skills	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
Case Based Discussion	A structured feedback form used to guide assessment of discussion regarding a patient seen in general practice	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School
Viva Assessment	Oral examination	Existing Medical School Feedback	Medical School

The reliabilities of individual tools are not reported here
^aData on 32 drug charts were made available by pharmacists at NHS Tayside. These consisted of two drug prescription charts for each attached medical student block. Other tools used are available to medical students to include when considering their suite of individual feedback

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