A quality improvement initiative to improve timeliness of feedback

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Borle, Sean C.
  • Hillier, Tracey
  • Andrew, Susan
  • Surgin, Cody
  • Lai, Hollis

• The Problem
  Timeliness of clinical assessment feedback for students is an essential
  part of medical education, but is difficult to achieve when programs are
  delivered across multiple sites with a large pool of instructors.

  Methods

  1. A data dashboard was developed to monitor the submission of assessment forms.
  2. Submissions were tracked to monitor the timeliness of feedback, relative to the midpoint and end point of each clerkship
  3. Dashboard was reviewed monthly by M.D Program committees.
  4. Reminder process triggered follow-up with appropriate faculty when feedback from a rotation was late. Key Results A total of 0.8 % of summative and 2.1% of formative assessment forms were found to be noncompliant with program expectations for timely submission. Conclusion Using an electronic dashboard, clerkship preceptor compliance on submitting timely feedback to students increased to 99.2% for summative feedback and 97.9% for formative feedback.

  Canadian Conference on Medical Education, April 18, 2020, Session PB-2 Absract #51760 (https://mededconference.ca/sites/default/files/2020-CCME-VIRTUAL-Program_en.pdf)

• Date created

  2019-12-03

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Medical Education - Data Management
  • Preceptor compliance
  • Medical clerkship
  • Preceptor feedback

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-04wd-n714

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International