Sunday, August 15, 2021

Page n: Competency driven assessment and testing of the student logbook author

Please be original and refrain from plagiarism. Please share the detailed online links to every quote or reference cited in your logbook. 

Please review the long and short case reports previously logged by our students and shared as samples here earlier. They are also available in the links below:



The above cases were also read out as a synchronous presentation along with answering of questions from online and offline examiners (as a part of a university summative assessment). The questions were directed to assess the presenter's competency in diagnosing and treating the above cases and is video linked there in the above two links for each of the hundreds of cases by hundreds of students. 

Weekly assignment:

1) Please go through the long and short cases, one at a time in the links shared above and provide your critical appraisal of the captured data in terms of completeness, correctness and ability to provide useful leads to analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties around the cases shared.

Please provide your peer review assessment on not only the the student's written case report but also the reading of the cases followed by the question answer session linked above in the video and share your thoughts around each answer by the student along with your qualitative insights into what was good or bad about the answer. 


2: Testing scholarship competency of the examinees ( ability to read comprehend, analyze, reflect upon and discuss captured patient centered data):

Please analyze the above linked long and short cases patient data by first preparing a problem list for each patient in order of perceived priority (based on the shared data) and then discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainty around solving those problems. 

3)Testing competency in "Evidence based medicine": 
Include the review of literature around sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic interventions mentioned and same around efficacy of the therapeutic interventions mentioned for each patient. 

4) Testing competency in patient data capture and representation through ethical case reporting/case presentation with informed consent :

Share the link to your own case report this month of a patient that you connected with and engaged while capturing his her sequential life events before and after the illness and clinical and investigational images along with your discussion of that case. 


Q 5) Testing scholarship competency in  
logging reflective observations on your concrete experiences of this last month :  

Reflective logging  of one's own experiences is a vital tool toward competency development in medical education and research. 

A few sample write ups on this last assignment around sharing your experience log of the month can be seen in one student's  answer to Q10 in the  May 2021 assignment in the link below:


And another student answer to Q5 in the June and July 2021 assignment in the links below :




Please reflect on and share  your telemedical learning experiences from the  hospital as well as community  patients over the last month particularly while you were E logging their case report while even in the hospital or perhaps when locked down at home.


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