Saturday, March 12, 2016

What’s the best way to evaluate surgery residents?

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It comes as no shock to me, and probably many other current and former program directors, that a recent study showed faculty overall performance evaluations of residents do not correlate with their scores on the yearly American Board of Surgery in Training Examination.

According to the JAMA Surgery paper, faculty evaluations encompassed technical skill and the six core competencies — medical knowledge, patient care, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, and system-based practice.

The paper analyzed data for 150 residents at different levels of training over four years and also found that even faculty evaluations of the category medical knowledge couldn’t predict who would get a good or a bad score on the test.

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