The influence of resident and faculty gender on assessments in anesthesia competency-based medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Competency-based medical education (CBME) relies on frequent workplace-based assessments of trainees, providing opportunities for conscious and implicit biases to reflect in these assessments. We aimed to examine the influence of resident and faculty gender on performance ratings of residents within a CBME system.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study took place from August 2017 to January 2021 using resident assessment data from two workplace-based assessments: the Anesthesia Clinical Encounter Assessment (ACEA) and Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). Self-reported gender data were also extracted. The primary outcome-gender-based differences in entrustment ratings of residents on the ACEA and EPAs-was evaluated using mixed-effects logistic regression, with

SUBMITTER: Matava CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171726 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature