Personality traits affect teaching performance of attending physicians: results of a multi-center observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Worldwide, attending physicians train residents to become competent providers of patient care. To assess adequate training, attending physicians are increasingly evaluated on their teaching performance. Research suggests that personality traits affect teaching performance, consistent with studied effects of personality traits on job performance and academic performance in medicine. However, up till date, research in clinical teaching practice did not use quantitative methods and did not account for specialty differences. We empirically studied the relationship of attending physicians' personality traits with their teaching performance across surgical and non-surgical specialties.

Method

We conducted a survey across surgical and non-surgical specialties in eighteen

SUBMITTER: Scheepers RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4028262 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature