'Every Human Interaction Requires a Bit of Give and Take': Medical Students' Approaches to Pursuing Feedback in the Clinical Setting

Teach Learn Med. 2022 Jun 22:1-11. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2084401. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPHENOMENON: Students, alongside teachers, play a key role in feedback. Student behavior in feedback processes may impact feedback outcomes. Student feedback behavior includes recognizing, seeking, evaluating, and utilizing feedback. Student feedback behavior is influenced by numerous student attributes and environmental factors.APPROACH: We aimed to explore influences on medical student feedback behavior during clinical attachments. We adopted a subjective inductive qualitative approach. We conducted 7 focus groups with 46 medical students undertaking pediatric hospital-based attachments. We based our discussion framework on existing characterizations of student feedback behavior and the educational alliance model with its focus on the relationship between learners and teachers, and the active role played by both. During initial data analysis, we identified that our results exhibited aspects of Bandura's model of Triadic Reciprocal Causation within Social Cognitive Theory. In line with our subjective inductive approach, we adopted Triadic Reciprocal Causation at this point for further analysis and interpretation. This allowed us to conceptualize the emerging interactions between influences on feedback behavior.FINDINGS: We identified three key determinants of student feedback behavior: Environmental influences, Student attributes and Relationships between teachers and students...
Source: Teaching and Learning in Medicine - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Source Type: research