Giving residents meaningful feedback
Who does your annual or bi-annual evaluation of the residents? Do you have a group that rotates? A competency committee? A ‘core’ committee?
I just got out of a meeting with our core advisory committee and chief residents and immediately sat down to write this entry. During the meeting I was struck with the idea that really getting to know the housestaff is the key to providing them with meaningful feedback.
In my opinion, reading information off of an evaluation checklist does not constitute meaningful feedback. Knowing what the ratings on the evaluation and correlating comments mean and using that information to offer residents help, guidance, and advice is the real holy grail of evaluation.
I would love to hear how others structure the evaluation component of their programs, especially for large programs like mine with 100+ residents.
Does anyone ask residents to evaluate the program leadership on how well they thought the evaluation sessions went? There’s an idea!
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Diane Farineau
Diane W. Farineau is the director of administration for graduate medical educational and faculty affairs at the University of Virginia Health System in the Department of Medicine.
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