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Assessment and Outcomes

The Assessment and Outcomes Office (AOO) of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (California & Oregon) is responsible for programmatic quality oversight and learning outcomes tracking within the college.

 

The AOO meets its goals through a variety of strategies including:

• Constructing evaluation tools and managing the system by which students evaluate all their courses and blocks in the preclinical curriculum;
• Collecting, analyzing and managing student evaluation data, and subsequently distributing these results to the block and clerkship directors, Curriculum Committee and Faculty Assembly;
• Developing faculty evaluations for the preclinical curriculum, managing the system by which students evaluate their faculty, and distributing the reports to each faculty member and their department chair;
• Working with course and block directors in the preclinical curriculum to create structured reports showing summary assessment data, as well as programmatic & institutional learning outcomes (PLO/ILOs), following each course or block, and presenting these reports to the Curriculum Committee;
• Working with core clinical rotation directors (COMP department chairs) in the clinical curriculum to create structured reports showing summary assessment data (COMAT), as well as programmatic & institutional learning outcomes (PLO/ILOs), following each year of clinical rotations, and presenting these reports to the Curriculum Committee;
• Developing faculty evaluations for the clinical curriculum, managing the system by which students evaluate their clinical faculty, and distributing the reports to each faculty member and the appropriate department chair;
• Working directly with curriculum directors and others in the COMP faculty for the creation and evaluation of assessment tools to monitor student performance and progress toward achieving COMP and 91Æƽâ°æ PLO/ILOs throughout the curriculum;
• Supervising programmatic review of the COMP osteopathic medical curriculum on a regular basis;
• Collaborating with other curriculum offices at COMP to disseminate aggregate assessment data through student dashboards;
• Following trends of aggregate and disaggregated data regarding national board examination performance;
• Actively monitoring professional and institutional accreditation requirements related to assessment and evaluation; and
• Assisting with medical education research and scholarship through consultation with COMP faculty on educational research design and implementation, survey construction, statistical analysis, and manuscript development.