We use web-based E-value. Criteria-based forms are completed online following each rotation. Faculty evaluate the resident and the resident in turn evaluates the faculty member and the rotation. Senior and junior residents also evaluate each other. Additional evaluations of residents come from the ICU nurses, the clinic nurses and the University of Washington School of Medicine third-year students doing their core clerkship in internal medicine. Besides verbal feedback during each rotation, formal feedback sessions are held three times per year for the R1 residents and twice per year for senior residents. Each month, we hold a group resident-faculty meeting to clarify issues and allow residents to provide suggestions for improving and changing the program. Our residents are very perceptive and have given the program great ideas that have been instituted. As part of preparation for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying examination, we ask our residents to take the ACP In Training Examination each year. These exams test knowledge and clinical acumen in comparison to other residents throughout the country. We pay the expense for these examinations because we believe they provide experience with questions residents may subsequently encounter and identify the specific areas of knowledge that need to be honed. |
Evaluations |