Evaluation of clinical performance: Part II

Through the methodological approach used in designing the clinical curriculum of the Minneapolis School of Anesthesia, the author believes the results of this work will enhance the management of the clinical evaluation program, improve the clinical instruction, and provide the student with a more valid and reliable evaluation of clinical performance. To quote Miller: "The path has been long, but the circle is now complete. Evaluation begins and ends with the behavioral goal of education, not with the instruments used to measure it or the instruction used to encourage it. It is at once a continuous process designed to facilitate learning and an intermittent activity to determine whether an acceptable amount of learning has occurred. . . . Evaluation is a tool for education not merely an administrative device for the separation of those who falter from those who succeed."