Live Blog: Attendees and speakers share best practices for collecting evaluations

By: Julie McCoy October 22nd, 2009

The 4th Annual Residency Program Managment Workshop is well underway!

During our first session, a program director asked the speaker pannel and attendees how he can get faculty members to take their evaluation responsibilities seriously.

This set off a firestorm of comments and suggestions. From what I gather, this is a very common problem in GME, so don’t worry, you’re not alone.

It’s up to the program director, with the help of the coordinator, to continually remind faculty of their responsibility for evaluting the residents. If possible, ask department chairs to include evaulation completion rates into faculty members’ annual reviews.

Franklin Medio also suggested including behavior anchors for each rating available on the evaluation. So, give examples of what constitutes a score of “1″ on a five-point scale, and so on. He also suggested that you require faculty members to justify any scores of 5 (or whatever the highest score is on the scale) in writing on the evaluation. If the faculty member does not do that, make it a policy to automatically bump that score down to the next highest level.

During our coordinator bootcamp, one coordinator pleaded with attendees and speakers to share solutions for getting faculty members to evaluate the residents. She and her program director have literally brought a hard copy version of the evaluation to a faculty member, asked him to fill it out right there, and give it back to them. He wouldn’t do it!!

Share your strategies for getting faculty members to evaluate residents below.

I’ll be back later with more from the conference.

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