Use of a Structured Early Intervention to Improve Student Success

Abstract

Indiana University School of Medicine has a competency-based curriculum with defined milestones that students must achieve to graduate. Early identification of students with challenges in these competencies enables educators to quickly intervene to help ensure these students achieve those competency specific milestones. Area of Concern (AOC) was developed to allow faculty to recognize and identify “low level” concerns in a course/clerkship/elective and to facilitate the opportunity for additional coaching by the Lead Advisor before these behaviors lead to a significant impact on grades.