Resident Performance Assessment

Resident Performance Assessment: A Crucial Area for Development

P lastic surgery resident assessment has become the next element in resident education that must be developed. Reliable, comprehensive resident evaluation is currently difficult to achieve because of inconsistent assessor participation and an incomplete assessment toolbox. Recent advances in technology may be able to help, but they require judicious application. In particular, attention should ...

Resident Surgical Assessment

Modeling Surgical Resident Performance

The goals of this work were to evaluate the methods used for assessing surgical residents and to model surgical resident performance. Currently, residents are evaluated by the attending surgeons using a one-page paper evaluation form after each rotation in a particular department. These subjective questionnaires require the evaluators to rate residents in competency areas that are thought to de...

Resident competence assessment: Best practices

Competence can be defined as “the ability to do something well.” The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. To prove competence, appropriate assessment methods are required. These methods should follow certain principles of assessment. Teaching ophthalmologist's time is valuable and limited and often poorly or uncompensated. Thus any assessment should...

Rethinking the Resident Assessment Protocols.

To the Editor: We are writing on behalf of interRAI, a 26country research network whose members developed the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument and the 18 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) for the Minimum Data Set, Version 2.0 (MDS V2.0). The recent article by Dosa et al. raises some interesting issues related to the RAPs, but it would be useful to take a somewhat broader view than...