Medical Education > Outcomes Assessment: Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education

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Mohammadreza.Hojat@jefferson.edu
or
Jon.Veloski@jefferson.edu

Core data for each physician include demographics, academic assessments, board scores, and ratings of clinical performance. Follow-up data include career outcomes from the Physicians' Professional Data files of the American Medical Association, board certification from the American Board of Medical Specialties, and local alumni surveys.

Extensive data for over 10,000 Jefferson medical students since 1964 form the backbone of the database the Longitudinal Study. Student data include demographics, responses to Jefferson’s matriculation and graduation questionnaires, records of academic performance in medical school, personal qualities, ratings of competence in residency, and follow-up surveys throughout their professional career.

This database is routinely used as a tool for academic management linked to the outcome requirements of accrediting bodies such as the LCME and ACGME. The Longitudinal Study also supports internal faculty development and has yielded over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

A compendium of 155 abstracts of studies that have been published in peer review journals, entitled Abstracts: Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education was published in 2006 and distributed widely to leaders in medical education. This document is available at http:/jdc.jefferson.edu/jlsme, or a copy can be obtained by contacting Mohammadreza.Hojat@jefferson.edu.

Recent Representative Publications

Silber, CG, Veloski, JJ. Use of critical incident technique to develop a rating form for faculty teaching effectiveness. Medical Education, 2006..

Hojat M, Veloski JJ, Nasca TJ, Erdmann JB, Gonnella JS. Assessing physicians’ orientation toward lifelong learning. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2006. 21:931-936.

Papadakis MA, Teherani A, Banach M, Knettler TR, Rattner S, Stern DT, Veloski JJ, Hodgson CS. Disciplinary action by medical boards and prior behavior in medical school. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2005. 353(25):2673-2682.

Silber CG, Veloski, JJ. Board certification in obstetrics and gynecology: associations with physicians' demographics and performances during medical school and residency. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005;192:318-22.

Silber CS, Nasca TJ, Paskin DL, Eiger G, Robeson M, Veloski JJ. Do global rating forms enable program directors to assess the ACGME competencies? Academic Medicine 2004; 79(6): 549-556.

Pohl CA, Robeson MR, Veloski J. USMLE Step 2 performance and test administration date in the fourth year of medical school. Academic Medicine 2004; 79(10) Suppl:S1-S3.

Gonnella JS, Erdmann JB, Hojat M. An empirical study of predictive validity of number grades in medical school using three decades of longitudinal data: implications for a grading system. Medical Education 2004; 38(4): 425-34.

Pohl CA, Robeson M, Hojat M, Rattner SL and Veloski JJ. Sooner or later? USMLE Step 1 performance and test administration date at the end of the second year. Academic Medicine , 2002; 77(10): S17-S19.

Hojat M, Erdmann JB, Veloski JJ, Nasca TJ, Callahan C, Julian E, Peck J. A validity study of the writing sample section of the Medical College Admission Test. Academic Medicine 2000;75:S25-S27.

Callahan C, Erdmann JB, Hojat M, Veloski JJ, Rattner SL, Nasca TJ, Gonnella JS. Validity of faculty ratings of students' clinical competence in core clerkships in relation to scores on licensing examinations and clinical competence ratings in residency. Academic Medicine 2000; 75 (10):S71-S73.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Erdmann JB, Veloski JJ, Louis DZ, Nasca TJ, Rattner SL. Physicians' perceptions of the changing health care system: comparisons by gender and specialties. Journal of Community Health , 2000; 25:455-471.

Gonnella JS, Hojat M, Erdmann JB, Veloski JJ. The impact of early career specialization on licensing requirements and related educational implications. Advances in Health Sciences Education 1997;1:125-139.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Veloski JJ, Erdmann JB. Jefferson Medical College's longitudinal study: A prototype for assessment of change. Education for Health: Changes in Training and Practice 1996; 9(1):99-113.