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Objective: We present reflections on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in the context of recent higher educational research that assesses SET, as well as concurrent and/or subsequent student performance.Conclusions: In a sense, there is in-built cynicism in SET, with more favourable SET for easier assessment. There is emerging evidence that SET is inversely proportional to the performance of students in subsequent courses, i.e. the higher the ratings, the poorer the students perform in subsequent studies. It is proposed that SET should be combined with contemporaneous formative and summative assessments of student performance in medical school settings, especially in psychiatry education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives:: We explore the relative roles of student evaluation of teaching (SET) and teachers' assessment of student performance (ASP) in medical school education in psychiatry.Conclusions:: We conclude that SET and ASP need to be better researched as outcome measures, and input from both processes needs to be balanced in evaluating psychiatric medical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: Academic; medical; mental disorder; logorrhoea; obsessive-compulsive EN Academic medical mental disorder logorrhoea obsessive-compulsive 104 105 2 02/08/21 20210201 NES 210201 Dear Sir, We describe diagnostic criteria for a debilitating new mental disorder emergent during the COVID-19 pandemic: "COVID-19 isolated-academic logorrhoea". This disorder has emerged in the university academic population, but we have noted particular prevalence among medical school academics, possibly as their COVID-19 pandemic clinical duties have impeded their research and teaching. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: video-meeting; overuse; Zoom; mental disorder; medical education EN video-meeting overuse Zoom mental disorder medical education 669 669 1 11/23/20 20201201 NES 201201 Dear Sir, We highlight a new diagnosis of paramount significance during the COVID-19 pandemic public health measures, and which may be included in international diagnostic classifications (e.g. the I Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders i or I International Classification of Diseases i ) in the future. Our proposed diagnosis is based on clinical observations of an insidious and debilitating video-meeting-mediated disorder afflicting medical students and their clinical academic teachers over the last 6 months, during social distancing for the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. We consider that this disorder may be usefully classified under the rubric of a trauma or stressor-related disorder; analogous to similar COVID-19 emergent mental disorders (to be discussed in forthcoming papers) such as COVID-19-related Isolated-Academic Logorrhoea (an obsessive-compulsive and related disorder) - the product of which may be exemplified by this letter - or, COVID-19-related Specific Communication Disorder (a bullshit or related disorder). [Extracted from the article]