Giving attendings feedback on a resident?

[DeadCactus]

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Is it appropriate for a medical student to give some positive feedback about their resident to the attending? I would think it would be fine, but maybe I'm missing some weird hierarchical rule...

 

[turkeyjerky]

Don't you guys fill out evals on your residents?

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

Is it appropriate for a medical student to give some positive feedback about their resident to the attending? I would think it would be fine, but maybe I'm missing some weird hierarchical rule...

What I did for one of my residents who was amazing was write an email to his program director outlining the reasons I thought he was a great teacher and resident.

The PD wrote me back and said he greatly appreciated the feedback, was putting my email into the resident's file, and nominated him for a departmental teaching award.

 

[235009]

yes, definitely appropriate, especially if it's a junior resident

 

[DeadCactus]

Don't you guys fill out evals on your residents?

Good question. We don't work with residents/interns often so I'm not sure if I'll be given an eval for the resident or just the attending...

 

[410322]

What I did for one of my residents who was amazing was write an email to his program director outlining the reasons I thought he was a great teacher and resident.

The PD wrote me back and said he greatly appreciated the feedback, was putting my email into the resident's file, and nominated him for a departmental teaching award.

How would/did you approach this in the negative setting? Direct e-mail to the res? Talk to the attending? You obviously don't want to do something to jeopardize his/her future career (ie: email PD and have bad stuff put into the file) but alerting him/her to problems is usually nice.

 

[HumbleMD]

This is usually what evals and teaching awards are for. Otherwise, work it into everyday rounds. If an attending asked me a question or a topic that a particularly great resident had taught me about, I'd always try to weave it into the conversation, ie "Yes, George did a great job taking me through the steps for a paracentesis yesterday."

 

[45408]

I usually put it in their written evals, and I nominated a few people for teaching awards.