Program Evaluations

In collaboration with Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM), this project aims to design, execute, and oversee a robust evaluation to assess the Human Dimension in Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program’s efficacy in achieving desired student, faculty, and patient-level outcomes. The objectives of the evaluation are to 1) evaluate whether the goalposts of the UME Human Dimension program, as envisioned by HMSOM, were achieved and 2) inform facilitators and barriers to program sustainability and scalability. This will be implemented in three phases:

1. Front-end Evaluation: To understand the institutional context within which the UME Human Dimension program operates and its relationship to the various UME student cohorts at HMSOM.
2. Design an Evaluation Plan: Comprised of mapping the information gathered from Phase I to develop an evaluation design and methodology. 
3. Implement the Evaluation: Activities will include:

• • the collection and/or development of data collection instruments for each Human Dimension evaluation metric included in the evaluation plan
  • IRB protocols for human subjects research, which may include focus groups and/or interviews
  • Human Dimension data tracking infrastructure, suitable for housing all data points across units of analysis, capable of producing descriptive
    statistics, and compatible with analytic software for more sophisticated analyses.