TY - JOUR
T1 - The Attending Meritocracy
T2 - Implementation of a Novel Team-Based Approach to Provide Effective Resident Feedback
AU - Atthota, Srilakshmi
AU - Griffiths, Alexa
AU - Kangas-Dick, Aaron
AU - Jesneck, Jonathan
AU - Thanawala, Ruchi
AU - Savel, Richard
AU - Rhee, Rebecca
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Association of Program Directors in Surgery
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE: Providing timely quality feedback is an essential responsibility of teaching faculty and is critical for resident assessment and development throughout training. Numerous evaluation platforms have been created to provide immediate and big picture end-of-rotation feedback. Faculty suffer burnout from electronic documentation demands and workload and as a result, evaluation activity is relegated to a lower priority leading to poor compliance. We implemented a novel team-based Attending Meritocracy (AM)1 program that encompasses monetary, automated reminder, and punitive components, while adding a competition element to further engage faculty. The aim of this study is to determine effectiveness of AM in increasing compliance with resident feedback. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Surgical faculty (n = 36) were divided into 5 teams according to service and subspecialty. Points could be earned by completing surgical (Firefly, MiniCEX) or rotation (New Innovations) evaluations, leaving comments, and other educational tasks. A prize for the highest scoring team was identified as a dinner financed by the non-winning teams. Data from evaluation platforms was extracted. Continuous variables were compared using Mann-Whitney-U test, and categorical variables using chi-squared test. RESULTS: When comparing July 2019 to February 2020 (control period) with July 2020 to February 2021(initial implementation period), we found a 237% increase in submitted NI evaluations (n = 111-374) and a 42.5% decrease in median time to completion from 60.4 (33.2-106.9) days to 34.7 (24.0-64.5) days, (p = 0.001).2 We observed an increase in operative evaluations completed (Mini CEX n = 4-97, Firefly n = 150-1284). CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of a team-based attending meritocracy program is an effective budget neutral method to increase completion of resident evaluations. Further investigation is needed to assess improvement in quality of feedback as well as to explore it's impact on progression of resident autonomy.
AB - OBJECTIVE: Providing timely quality feedback is an essential responsibility of teaching faculty and is critical for resident assessment and development throughout training. Numerous evaluation platforms have been created to provide immediate and big picture end-of-rotation feedback. Faculty suffer burnout from electronic documentation demands and workload and as a result, evaluation activity is relegated to a lower priority leading to poor compliance. We implemented a novel team-based Attending Meritocracy (AM)1 program that encompasses monetary, automated reminder, and punitive components, while adding a competition element to further engage faculty. The aim of this study is to determine effectiveness of AM in increasing compliance with resident feedback. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Surgical faculty (n = 36) were divided into 5 teams according to service and subspecialty. Points could be earned by completing surgical (Firefly, MiniCEX) or rotation (New Innovations) evaluations, leaving comments, and other educational tasks. A prize for the highest scoring team was identified as a dinner financed by the non-winning teams. Data from evaluation platforms was extracted. Continuous variables were compared using Mann-Whitney-U test, and categorical variables using chi-squared test. RESULTS: When comparing July 2019 to February 2020 (control period) with July 2020 to February 2021(initial implementation period), we found a 237% increase in submitted NI evaluations (n = 111-374) and a 42.5% decrease in median time to completion from 60.4 (33.2-106.9) days to 34.7 (24.0-64.5) days, (p = 0.001).2 We observed an increase in operative evaluations completed (Mini CEX n = 4-97, Firefly n = 150-1284). CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of a team-based attending meritocracy program is an effective budget neutral method to increase completion of resident evaluations. Further investigation is needed to assess improvement in quality of feedback as well as to explore it's impact on progression of resident autonomy.
KW - Competency based learning
KW - Evaluations
KW - Feedback
KW - Formative feedback
KW - Resident education
KW - Surgical education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.08.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 34452853
AN - SCOPUS:85113678795
SN - 1931-7204
VL - 78
SP - e78-e85
JO - Journal of Surgical Education
JF - Journal of Surgical Education
IS - 6
ER -