Fostering Learner Confidence in Your MSPE Process

September 4, 2024

Ensuring learners feel confident with the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) process is critical, as this summary is a key component of their application to Graduate Medical Education (GME). When your Student Affairs office is able to provide transparency into the MSPE process and final product, learners’ trust in your office, and consequently your school, is strengthened. 

Traditionally, the MSPE process has been complicated and lacked transparency, leading to high levels of learner anxiety and varying levels of participation in the MSPE review and attestation process. 

One45 MSPE Builder addresses these issues by making it seamless for learners to get involved in letter review through its comprehensive learner review functionality, launched in 2023. This feature enhances the MSPE process through added transparency, which helps students feel more in control and confident about their MSPE letter. 

Let’s explore how MSPE Builder boosts learner confidence and increases efficiency for Student Affairs teams.

Understanding the MSPE process

The traditional MSPE process is long, manually intensive, and cumbersome. It involves collecting data from many sources, having Student Affairs staff manually copy and paste grades and narratives, and finalizing letters for graduating learners each year. 

Near the end of this tedious process, Student Affairs teams handle the required learner review and attestation process of the letter in similarly manual ways. These include booking in-person or Zoom meetings with each learner or emailing a copy and then trying to incorporate edits. It can also involve trying to track down students via email who have not responded in order to provide feedback on the MSPE draft. 

These emails frequently go unnoticed, ignored because they’re “just another email from the Dean’s office,” or get caught in spam filters, making it difficult to secure learner feedback. 

Zoom calls and in-person meetings can also be challenging for students with demanding schedules, and those on away rotations in different time zones. 

As a result, learner participation can be low, and at some schools, only about half of the learners are engaging in the review process. 

This method is not only slow and error-prone but also stressful for learners and staff. 

That’s where MSPE Builder comes in. 

Why MSPE Builder?

MSPE Builder automates the process of composing MSPE letters, ensuring new data is up-to-date, performance graphs are created, and noteworthy characteristics are directly integrated. The tool allows you to seamlessly distribute letters to students, ensure feedback is obtained, and integrate that feedback in order to finalize the MSPE letter.  

The learner review function in MSPE Builder has significantly enhanced both the efficiency of the MSPE creation process and learner confidence in their letter’s accuracy. 

Using MSPE Builder, learners receive their MSPE drafts through a polished, secure platform that will never be mistaken for “just another email from the Dean’s office.” 

They can review their letters and provide feedback right within the platform, without the pressure of scheduling a review session or relying on email. 

Plus, because the process is managed directly within the MSPE Builder solution, it is more efficient for Student Affairs teams and reduces the chances of human error that come from manually integrating feedback into the letters. 

The value of MSPE Builder

MSPE Builder is revolutionizing the way medical schools manage learners’ review of their MSPE letters by making the process more transparent and efficient. 

It empowers learners to actively participate in the MSPE creation process, boosting their confidence and engagement. 

At the same time, it simplifies the workload for administrative staff, ensuring a smoother, more efficient MSPE process. 

Here’s a closer look at the key benefits.

1. Improved learner confidence 

By allowing learners to review and provide feedback on their letters, MSPE Builder makes the process transparent. This involvement helps learners feel more in control and reassured about this key component of their residency application. 

2. Better learner participation

MSPE Builder includes a comprehensive learner review functionality, which allows learners to actively participate in the MSPE creation process. This functionality has improved learner participation rates dramatically.

Learners become more engaged, which leads to more timely and thorough reviews and makes them feel more involved and valued.

3. Increased efficiency for Student Affairs

By automating many manual tasks such as data input and updates, and letter distribution to learners, MSPE Builder saves time and reduces administrative burdens. 

At the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, MSPE Builder helped shorten a two-month learner review process to one that now takes only a weekend. 

Staff no longer have to chase students to provide attestations and feedback on their letters. The tool’s simple interface and detailed tracking system ensure that learners complete their reviews promptly, regardless of where they are located. This allows staff to monitor each letter’s status and focus on more critical tasks.

4. Reduced chances of human error

MSPE Builder automates much of the MSPE process, ensuring all relevant information is accurately included in the MSPE letter and minimizing the risk of errors. It also leverages integrations with existing data systems, eliminating the need for manual updates. 

This automation leads to error-free MSPE letters, boosting confidence for both learners and staff.

In short, MSPE Builder makes the MSPE process faster, clearer, and more reliable, which is a huge benefit to busy learners and medical school administrative staff.

MSPE Builder fosters learner confidence and improves efficiency

MSPE Builder is revolutionizing the MSPE process by fostering learner confidence and improving the efficiency of Student Affairs teams. 

By streamlining the MSPE process and promoting collaboration, MSPE Builder ensures learners feel supported and confident as they prepare for their future careers.

Schedule a demo and discover how MSPE Builder can transform your MSPE process and boost student confidence today.