Improving participant feedback to continuing medical education presenters in internal medicine: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Feedback is essential for improving the skills of continuing medical education (CME) presenters. However, there has been little research on improving the quality of feedback to CME presenters.

Objectives

To validate an instrument for generating balanced and behavior-specific feedback from a national cross-section of participants to presenters at a large internal medicine CME course.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective, randomized validation study with qualitative data analysis that included all 317 participants at a Mayo Clinic internal medicine CME course in 2009.

Measurements

An 8-item (5-point Likert scales) CME faculty assessment enhanced study form (ESF) was designed based on literature and expert review. Course participants were ran

SUBMITTER: Wittich CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3304027 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature