Effectiveness of a focused educational intervention on resident evaluations from faculty : A randomized controlled trial

To improve the quality and specificity of written evaluations by faculty attendings of internal medicine residents during inpatient rotations. Prospective randomized controlled trial. Four hospitals: tertiary care university hospital, Veterans' Administration hospital, and two community hospita...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM 2001-07, Vol.16 (7), p.427-434
Hauptverfasser: HOLMBOE, Eric S, FIEBACH, Nicholas H, GALATY, Leslie A, HUOT, Stephen
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Zusammenfassung:To improve the quality and specificity of written evaluations by faculty attendings of internal medicine residents during inpatient rotations. Prospective randomized controlled trial. Four hospitals: tertiary care university hospital, Veterans' Administration hospital, and two community hospitals. Eighty-eight faculty and 157 residents from categorical and primary-care internal medicine residency training programs rotating on inpatient general medicine teams. Focused 20-minute educational session on evaluation and feedback, accompanied by 3 by 5 reminder card and diary, given to faculty at the start of their attending month. 1) number of written comments from faculty specific to unique, preselected dimensions of competence; 2) number of written comments from faculty describing a specific resident behavior or providing a recommendation; and 3) resident Likert-scale ratings of the quantity and effect of feedback received from faculty. Faculty in the intervention group provided more written comments specific to defined dimensions of competence, a median of three comments per evaluation form versus two in the control group, but when adjusted for clustering by faculty, the difference was not statistically significant (P =.09). Regarding feedback, residents in the intervention group rated the quantity significantly higher (P =.04) and were significantly more likely to make changes in clinical management of patients than residents in the control group (P =.04). A brief, focused educational intervention delivered to faculty prior to the start of a ward rotation appears to have a modest effect on faculty behavior for written evaluations and promoted higher quality feedback given to house staff.
ISSN:0884-8734
1525-1497
DOI:10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016007427.x