Influencing your resident evaluations for success

Performance appraisals are an integral part of an organization’s assessment of employee and trainee standing. Management and human resource literature is full of analysis and debate regarding how to best rate subordinates. Regardless of evaluation system utilized, some of the common goals of individual appraisals are to monitor progress, identify areas for growth, set goals, guide development, provide and elicit feedback through open communication, and document issues that may require disciplinary action or even alternative career guidance. Effective evaluation processes are transparent, objective, fair, predictable, valid (they measure what they are intended to measure) and reliable (the results are repeatable and demonstrate low inter-rater variability). The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) oversees all physician trainee programs that lead to specialty board certification. The ACGME outlines the mandatory components of a resident evaluation in its Common Program Requirements. Faculty are required to submit a “formative evaluation” in a timely manner for each rotation. Objective assessments of resident competence are to be provided in the areas of “patient care, procedural skills, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice” — all based on specialty-specific Milestones assessment tools. Additionally, evaluations are to be multidi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs