Designing Internal Assessment Plan for medical undergraduates: Practical guidelines

Abstract

Since adopting a new competency-based curriculum for medical undergraduates, formulating the plans for assessing the students has become cumbersome. Current guidelines emphasize more towards formative assessment rather than summative. In this paper, we have tried to develop a simple assessment plan for evaluating students in two subjects taught in different phases, i.e., Pathology and Surgery. This model involved both formative and summative assessment methods to improve the reliability and validity of assessment. We have tried to evaluate each and every competency pertaining to different domains. Equal weightage is provided to both the theory and clinical part. Due to its continuous nature, multiple tools are used to evaluate clinical skills like mini-cex, osce, short and long cases.