Evaluation During Residency

[kiernin]

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I will be a new intern this summer. I am wondering how we are evaluated and given feedback on our performance during residency.

Is there a formal mechanism in place like in med school, where attendings/senior residents have to fill out a form at the end of our time on the service, or is it more informal (the attending tells you to your face if you suck)? In other words, how to you know what you need to work on?

 

[Winged Scapula]

I will be a new intern this summer. I am wondering how we are evaluated and given feedback on our performance during residency.

Is there a formal mechanism in place like in med school, where attendings/senior residents have to fill out a form at the end of our time on the service, or is it more informal (the attending tells you to your face if you suck)? In other words, how to you know what you need to work on?

All accredited programs are required to have a formal review process in place. In many places it consists of written evaluations (by both residents and attendings) done quarterly.

My program used written evaluations done by the attendings and senior residents for the junior and we reviewed them with our PD. It was supposedly to be quarterly, but in all honesty, unless there was a problem, it often was much less frequent. As we got more modern, a on line eval (which even had a picture of the resident uploaded) was used...it might have been part of New Innovations.

At any rate, your program will have its own practice set in place. I know that I got some evaluations face to face by faculty, but for the most part, surgeons (and really, most people) aren't very good at this, especially if they have some negative things to say. One of my favorite faculty members actually sat down with us as interns and gave us our evaluation and made sure that when we returned to service as 2nd years to review what the problems and successes in the past had been and to see if there were any changes. He was a tough guy, but I really appreciated that he took the time to do so.

YMMV...some people are too uncomfortable to do that in person. And generally the evals are not done until you are off service.

 

[ESU_MD]

I am wondering how we are evaluated and given feedback on our performance during residency.

Officially, each program has it's own process. Usually some kind of bogus form with a bunch of mumbo-jumbo on it to satisfy the RRC. Like rate the resident above, avg, or below avg on each of the core- competencies.

Unofficially, and probably more importantly they develop an opinion about you based on their interactions with you and your ability.

They also ask your senior residents about you, and they can flavor the opinion too.

In some ways, residency is alot like high school. The residents who play golf, cards, whatever with the attendings tend to "do better"