Utilization of a Formative Evaluation Card in a Psychiatry Clerkship

Objective This article discusses how formative feedback to medical students during their clinical rotations facilitates their successfully meeting the rotation’s educational objectives. To help students initiate mid-rotation feedback and to help preceptors structure that feedback, the authors designed the Instant Feedback Card (IFc). The goal of this study was to examine the degree to which the IFc facilitated the formative feedback process from the perspectives of both students and faculty.