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Program Evaluation: Resident and Fellow Performance Surveys

For further information contact: Jon.Veloski@jefferson.edu

Residency program directors from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Wills Eye Hospital provide annual written evaluations for residents and fellows using a form developed with the Associate Dean for Education and Affiliated Programs. In future years, program directors will be able to use the existing computer-readable form or will have the option of completing their evaluations of house staff on the web.

Center researchers recently completed a multivariate analysis of these rating forms in relation to the six ACGME competencies. The results of this study, which were described by Silber et al in the June, 2004, issue of Academic Medicine , have important implications for residency programs and leaders concerned with the measurement of outcomes in graduate medical education. Residency programs may not be able to rely on the global rating forms that they have traditionally used to measure the complex outcomes described in the six ACGME competencies.

Representative Publications

Silber CG, Nasca TJ, Paskin DL, Eiger G, Robeson MR, Veloski JJ. Do global rating forms enable program directors to assess the ACGME competencies? Academic Medicine 2004; 79(6): 549-556.

Nasca TJ, Hojat M, Erdmann JB, Brigham TP, Gonnella JS, Veloski JJ, Robeson MR, Callahan C. Conceptualization and measurement of clinical competence or residents: a brief rating form and its psychometric properties. Medical Teacher 2000; (24): 303-7.