Educational Resources

Once a student has created a Vital Experience with relevant educational resources in either the Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency Handbook or ClinicalKey, we will provide that information to the student to begin learning more about the Vital Experience they just created. If the Vital Experience that the student submitted has […]

Recommended Vital Experiences

VSTAR Next is now able to extract information about student’s educational experiences from the clinical documentation they write in the electronic health record at VUMC and use it to autofill some of the portion of submitted Vital Experiences. This is done by mapping controlled vocabulary terms in the clinical documentation to known required Vital Experiences. If a […]

Mapping Session Objectives to Course Objectives

Within VSTAR Next, users can view Session Objectives and map them to Course Objectives by navigating to the Schedule tab inside of the desired course. Navigate to the Courses tab located on the left navigation pane in VSTAR Next. From here, you can search for the name of the course in the Section field and […]

Student Portfolio | Progress

The Progress dropdown view of the Student Portfolio will display your previous Promotions Committee statuses as well as any flags for Areas of Concern that you may have received. The first tab is Promotions. In this tab you will see all Promotions Committee Statuses that you have received over the […]

Student Portfolio | Competencies

Students can view how they are performing on each Competency across all Assessments in the Competencies dropdown view in the Student Portfolio. This will be display in a Scatterplot for each Competency within a Domain. You can select which Phase, Domain, and Assessment Type you wish to view. Of these […]

Course Management | Assessments Table

The Assessments Tab in the Course Management page will display not only the Midcourse Feedback Grading Form and Final Grade Form but also all Assessments administered by Course Faculty or Staff. This includes Faculty Assessments, Peer Assessments, Self Assessments, and MCT Assessments. Anyone who is enrolled in the course will […]