Welcome to Night-onCall

Funded and supported by Josiah Macy JR, Macy initiative, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute and WISE MD program.
Developed in partnership with New York University and the Medical Colleges of Wisconsin, and participating consortium medical schools.

Are your near graduates ready for the challenges of internship and residency? 

Night-onCall is a simulated night on call with standardized patients, nurses, residents, attending and patient partners.  This simulation assess near medical graduates readiness for internship and entrustment judgements through a series of cases and activities they are expected to do during their first night on call. 

Night-OnCall provides ready-to-use cases, training materials to standardize the simulation experience, assessment and outcome reports on medical students’ performance.  

An online application is available to capture, analyze, and generate reports for medical learners and schools in a straight forward and easy-to-use manner.

Explore Night-onCall

Seven clinical cases were designed to evaluate a near graduate’s ability to assess patients, form diagnoses, gather informed consent, and thoughtfully engage a number of actors.  All training materials for the various roles in the case, checklists for assessment, labs and additional case materials are available.

Assess medical performance.

During NOC, Medical learners are assess on their communication, history and physical examination skills, note writing, cultural safety, clinical reasoning, transfer of case content to a resident, and evidence based skills.

Collect data and generate reports with a click of a button in the NOC Application

The Night-OnCall Application is a data capture and reporting software that is specifically designed to make the process of collecting data (rating students), analyzing and generating reports seamless for both medical schools and students.
Medical Learners receive a comprehensive report regarding their performance, and medical schools receive these reports, along with a summary of how well their medical learners performed overall.

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 FAQs

  • A NOC simulation involves completing 3 15-minute clinical encounter with a standardized patient, and then 10-minutes to write a clinical note. This is followed by a 10-minute activity that demonstrates an important skill near graduates are expected to perform during internship. NOC ends with a transfer of all three patients cases to the next team member.

  • NOC should be done close to near graduation. If you would like to use the results from NOC to identify struggling near graduates, consider conducting NOC earlier in the near graduates final year.

  • NOC is a three case simulation. Each case is ~35 minutes in length, with 10 minutes for doing a final hand-off activity. Thus, NOC takes approximately 2-2.5 hours to complete.

  • You will need to recruit and train the standardized patients and librarian grading the literature search activity, and recruit faculty to grade clinical notes.

    All of the training materials, checklists for rating near graduates, the collection of data on the day of NOC and generation of reports for students and Medical Schools is available in the NOC app.

    We support all new sites in their first year to ensure they have a smooth experience.