Interactive faculty development seminars improve the quality of written feedback in ambulatory teaching

J Gen Intern Med. 2003 Oct;18(10):831-4. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.20739.x.

Abstract

We performed a pre-post study of the impact of three 90-minute faculty development workshops on written feedback from encounters during an ambulatory internal medicine clerkship. We coded 47 encounters before and 43 after the workshops, involving 9 preceptors and 44 third-year students, using qualitative and semiquantitative methods. Postworkshop, the mean number of feedback statements increased from 2.8 to 3.6 statements (P =.06); specific (P =.04), formative (P =.03), and student skills feedback (P =.01) increased, but attitudinal (P =.13) and corrective feedback did not (P =.41). Brief, interactive, faculty development workshops may refine written feedback, resulting in more formative specific written feedback comments.

MeSH terms

  • Ambulatory Care
  • Clinical Clerkship / methods*
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Education
  • Faculty / organization & administration*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internal Medicine / education*
  • Male
  • Students
  • Teaching / methods*
  • United States
  • Writing*