3. A student requests placement in her physician father's office for an ambulatory clerkship. Her father or one of his partners would be submitting a clinical performance evaluation on the student at the end of the clerkship.
#	Response Date	Comment
1.	Wed, 3/14/07 12:08 AM	...on the objectivity/method of the evaluation. If the evaluation is majorly objective the COI is less extreme; however, if the physician's perceptions are the evaluation the conflict extends to both parties. The student may not receive an honest evaluation and the evaluator's credibility might be questioned if he falsely inflates this particular student's marks.
2.	Wed, 3/14/07 12:56 AM	How many total physicians. Her work should be done with someone besides him therefore she would be evaluated by someone else. If she works directly with him and is graded by him---huge conflict of interest, if it is done as suggested small/moderate COI
3.	Wed, 3/14/07 4:32 PM	I would not want the evaluation to be by a family member. But I think most docotrs have the integrity to fairly evaluate a person who may be a close acqaintence.
4.	Fri, 3/16/07 2:14 PM	If elective, I don't think it would matter. If it were a core rotation and one for which the student could get honors, I think it would be a serious COI.
5.	Sun, 3/18/07 11:24 PM	If the father submits, it's very serious, if a colleague submits it's less serious.
6.	Mon, 3/19/07 6:50 PM	Overall-Moderate COI However, I would hope that her father or his partner would be familiar with students rotating in for their clerkship and would give her a fair and accurate evaluation. Yet, it might be difficult to give her a negative evaluation if she did not meet the criteria. Of course it would be a bit biased. I think situations like this should be avoided.
7.	Mon, 3/26/07 2:04 PM	Her father would definitely have a large COI, however one of his colleagues may be perfectly able to give an unbiased evaluation.