As the process for making changes to a school's MSPE involves discussion and preparation, it is likely that October 2018 MSPEs, for the 2019 graduating class, were the first to fully implement this process. This article describes the first of these steps. Hopefully, facilitation of the residency selection process would result. Then, readers of the MSPE would need to find these recommendations helpful.

1 The goal was to achieve вЂњa level of standardization and transparency that facilitates the residency selection process.вЂќ 1 For this goal to be achieved, writers of the MSPE would first need to implement the recommendations. In May 2017, Recommendations for Revising the Medical Student Performance Evaluation was published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Thus, if this information can be conveyed accurately and efficiently, the MSPE can provide a counterweight to overreliance on numerical scores from multiple-choice examinations. This information is derived from the student's preferred rotations and rotations in which the student may have had little interest. Of the resources available to residency program directors considering applicants to interview, the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) is the only one that contains information summarizing the medical student's entire experience throughout undergraduate medical education and potentially contains information on all 6 competencies.

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