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Internal Medicine Core Clerkship — Program Description for Evaluation Planning (Illustrative example. Not based on any specific institution's curriculum.) Overview The Internal Medicine Core Clerkship is a required eight-week rotation for third-year medical students in our undergraduate medical education (UME) program. It is a competency-based clerkship: the experience is organized around developing and demonstrating clinical competence, not simply logging time. Students rotate across several teaching sites, including our main academic hospital and a number of community hospitals and ambulatory clinics. Who it's for Third-year medical students completing their core clinical year. A typical cohort moves through the rotation in blocks across the academic year. What students do Daily inpatient ward rounds, ambulatory clinic sessions, structured oral case presentations, a weekly clinical-reasoning conference, simulation-based skills sessions, written patient encounter write-ups, a formative mid-clerkship feedback meeting, and a summative assessment period. What the clerkship is trying to develop Four areas of competence: clinical reasoning, patient care, medical knowledge, and communication. How students are assessed NBME shelf exam; end-of-rotation clinical evaluations by faculty and residents; an OSCE with standardized patients; direct-observation assessments; and LMS patient logs. Attendings and residents both teach and rate the students. Why we want to evaluate the clerkship Each year the clerkship goes through a CQI review feeding the UME curriculum committee. Leadership's concerns this cycle: 1. Are students achieving the intended competencies by the end of the clerkship? 2. Is assessment consistent across community sites? We've noticed variability in clinical-evaluation scores and aren't sure if it reflects real differences in students or in how sites/raters evaluate. 3. Is the student experience equitable across sites? 4. Where can we strengthen the assessment system overall? You don't need this much detail — even a few plain-language paragraphs is enough to start.