Clinical Guide The Nerd's Guide to Pre-Rounding Table of Contents Part 3. Job Performance: The Big Ten Each clerkship uses a version of a basic UCSF evaluation form as a basis for grading medical students. In addition to written comments, there are ten features of your performance that get a numeric score. The grades are: 1 (very poor), 2 (needs work), 3 (good but still can improve), or 4 (excellent). The ten features usually go something like: Fund of knowledge/mechanisms of disease. History taking. Physical exam. Case presentations. Record keeping (progress notes). Problem solving. Professionalism/Responsibility. Self-improvement and adaptability. Relationships with patients. Relationships with teammates. Notice #2-5? Those are your basic job description from above. #1 and 6 have to do with having medical knowledge and applying it. I can’t help you there—but some advice may help you avoid coming off poorly when in fact you know your stuff. See below. #7-10 mostly have to do with demonstrating that you care about doing a good job, and using some emotional intelligence. Much of the following advice applies to these evaluation criteria.