Revisiting Feed Forward: Promoting a Student-Centered Approach to Education Handoffs, Remediation, and Clerkship...

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Student Support Systems
• Clinical Clerkships

Background:

• Medical students face unique academic, interpersonal, and professional challenges during clinical clerkships.
• Siloed clinical rotations can lead to students struggling without adequate support or coaching.
• Institutions are developing feed forward processes for educational handoffs to support struggling students.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe the feed forward processes implemented at four medical schools.
• To highlight collaborative strategies between faculty and deans for student intervention.
• To examine methods for providing longitudinal support while mitigating negative bias.

Main Methods:

• Description of feed forward processes at four medical institutions.
• Analysis of collaboration between course directors and deans.
• Examination of student identification and intervention plan development.

Main Results:

• Feed forward processes involve collaboration between course directors and deans.
• Course leadership and administration typically drive student follow-up.
• Student involvement in the process varies, with some schools including students directly.
• Two schools utilize larger, regularly scheduled faculty meetings for the process.

Conclusions:

• Formalization and adherence to feed forward processes are crucial for student success.
• Mitigating negative bias is achieved through information flow and student involvement.
• These exemplars demonstrate diverse approaches to educational leadership empowering student progress.