Purpose
The Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) is a summary letter provided by WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine to residency program directors with honest and objective information about each student’s salient attributes, experiences, and academic accomplishments based, to the greatest degree possible, on verifiable information and summative evaluations in medical school. The MSPE is a summary letter of evaluation, not a letter of recommendation.
Components
Identifying Information
- Student’s legal name and year in school
- Name and location of the medical school
Noteworthy Characteristics
This section includes information intended to help a residency program selection committee review applicants holistically to achieve a residency class that brings a diverse set of background experiences, characteristics, and perspectives. Students have the opportunity to develop their own noteworthy characteristics in collaboration with the Senior Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs.
Academic History
This section provides information about dates of matriculation, expected date of graduation, any leaves, gaps, or breaks in the education program with explanation, whether a student was required to repeat or remediate any coursework, and whether the student was the recipient of any adverse actions.
Academic Progress
This section includes information about the student’s academic performance and professional attributes in the preclinical curriculum and the LIC. It will also include a professional assessment. Graphic representations of the student’s performance and narrative comments are included.
Summary
This section provides final comments about the student.
Medical School Information
This last section provides institution-specific information and is included and unchanged for all students.
The information below lists of the individuals and their role in preparing the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE):
- Medical Student: Identify and develop their Noteworthy Characteristics.
- Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment, and Evaluation: Provides assessment data and narrative comments for the Academic History and Progress sections; Signatory.
- Vice Dean for Admissions, Student Affairs, and Alumni Engagement: Oversees the process for compiling the MSPE and uploading final document to residency application services, assists in the Academic History sections, collaborates with the student to develop the Noteworthy Characteristics; Signatory.
- Associate Dean for Curriculum: Serves as an alternate reviewer at student’s request. Ensures comparability of summary paragraphs across the four clinical campuses; Signatory.
- Associate Deans for Clinical Education: Draft the summary paragraphs for their cohorts. Reviews the MSPE draft with their Learning Community students (optional – as requested by the student); Signatory.
The MSPE is compiled from May – August of the students’ fourth year. The student has two opportunities to review the MSPE (the initial draft and final draft) and provides their approval to upload the final MSPE to the application services. The student has the option to review a draft of the MSPE with their ADCE, but this is not required. If a student does not want their ADCE to review with them, they can request a review by the Associate Dean for Curriculum. If the student wishes to challenge any of the factual information in the MSPE, they can do so through Student Affairs to the Office of Accreditation, Assessment, and Evaluation. If an agreement is still not reached, a final appeal can be made to the Dean whose decision is final.