Peer Observation and Feedback for Small Group Facilitators in Medical Education
摘要
Volunteer medical faculty with variable teaching experience often facilitate small groups for medical students. An initiative was designed to provide observation and feedback to pre-clerkship small group facilitators at our medical school, with 147 faculty participants over 2 years. The majority of respondents to a program evaluation survey found the observation moderately (44.7%) to extremely (23.7%) helpful. In total, 64.9% of respondents implemented some feedback into their teaching, and 64.9% felt that the program should be mandatory. Direct observation and feedback provided a well-received addition to the culture of deliberate practice that medical educators hope to foster.