MB BS: MyProgress Phase I Peer Review Student Guide

Traditionally, medical education has been focused primarily on medical knowledge and skills. More recently, there has been increased emphasis on other attributes that are crucial for professionals. These include skills of self-critique and self-awareness which are often difficult to observe or assess in a typical educational environment.

Thus, students are often the best source of the information in terms of their ability to critique and assess their own competence and skills, and to plan accordingly. It is also the case that students may be more aware of each others’ strengths and weaknesses in certain areas (such as effective team working or study skills) since they may see much more of each other than the tutors.

This is the basic reason why reflective exercises that Hull York Medical School students are asked to do include reflective essays and peer reviews. It is also the case that doctors are expected to honestly appraise their colleagues throughout their career. Thus, this is a skill that HYMS should help students develop and that should be started early in medical training.

Students can consequently become comfortable in appraising their peers constructively, as well as being able to take on board feedback and use it to improve. It is important to remember that everyone can improve. Simply giving glowing positive feedback does not help guide improvement. In fact there is some evidence that only providing praise can result in students deteriorating in performance and knowledge, as well as students developing a fear of failure and an unwillingness to explore learning needs (Dweck, 1999).

If someone clearly could use some work on developing in an area, it is far more helpful to tell them than to gloss over it. If someone is good, the question that should be asked is; ‘how can I be even better?’. Of course, all feedback should be offered and received in the spirit of being helpful and professional.

Keep in mind that this is an appraisal, not an assessment. You should consider seriously how you think the rest of your group members are doing, so as to help them improve. It is important to be honest and constructive. It is unlikely that everyone in your group is ‘excellent’. You might expect most people to be a ‘pass’, but again, without specific feedback, it is difficult to plan any actions to become even better in the future. You should be prepared to give “borderline fail” or “fail” marks if you feel that there is an important area on which they could concentrate profitably.

The form will require you to give written comments as well, and you should be prepared to give concrete, constructive feedback on areas for improvement, as well as comments about areas of progression or excellence. Keep in mind that these forms are used for formative feedback, not for summative assessment. You will also be asked to do a self-assessment. Consider honestly how you think you are doing, keeping in mind what is expected of medical students in terms of professional behaviour.

Each student will receive an anonymous summary at the one-to-one meetings. This along with several other sources of information will form the basis of a discussion leading to some agreed areas to work on for improvement.

1.  To access MyProgress navigate to: https://hyms.epads.mkmapps.com/
2. Click on Sign In and then Log in with your University Account. When prompted enter your Hull York Medical School email address (hy****@hyms.ac.uk) and password. You will need to further authenticate via Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Please access the following link to our MFA help pages for further guidance; MFA help pages.
3. Select the Year 1 or 2 Portfolio from your student homepage.
4. Your blocks of study will display, as well as relevant PBL / CS Peer Reviews. Select the relevant instance of the Peer Review.
5. The Peer Review form tabs will then display; the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab, and the Tutor Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab.
6. To complete the self-assessment and assessment for each of your peers, select create new from the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab.
7. From the new window you can select to complete an assessment for yourself and also for your peers.
8. Select who you wish to complete an assessment for first.
9. Click on confirm peer.
10. Select from the drop-down grading options for Effectiveness as a Chair, Effectiveness as a Scribe, and Effectiveness as a group member. Enter written content for the two fields; What do you think this student does well in PBL? and What do you think this student needs to improve in PBL?
11. It is also possible to save the content of the form by selecting save and close draft from the top right-hand corner. You will be redirected back to the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab. Click on complete new and select the drop-down option to be taken back to your draft form.
12. When you are happy with the content of the form, select submit in the top right-hand corner.

    Ensure you are certain you wish to submit content. You will not be able to undo submitting your form content. You will also not be able to review what you have submitted for your peers once submitted.

13. Confirm a second time that you are happy with your submission.
14. You will be redirected back to the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab and a brief successfully submitted response will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
15. If you have submitted a self-assessment, the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab will update to say 1 response submitted.
16. You can also select to view peers from the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab.
17. A pop-out window will confirm which responses you have successfully submitted for your peers. The number against view peers will update to reflect the number of forms your have submitted for your peers.
18. Repeat these steps until you have completed the self-assessment and all the forms for your peers.
    

Self-assessment and feedback from your peers

1. 1. Click on the Peer Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab.
   2. A table summary of responses will display.
   3. Below the table you can click on individual responses from your peers and your own self-assessment. The feedback from your peers will only appear once your tutor releases feedback.
   4. Click on a submitted form to see detailed information.

Tutor feedback

1. Select the Tutor Assessment of Student Professional Behaviours tab.
2. If your tutor has completed feedback, a submitted form will display under the tab.
3. Select the submitted form to view detailed feedback.