Formal Versus Informal Judgments: Faculty Experiences With Entrustment in Graduate Medical Education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Entrustment of residents has been formalized in many competency-based graduate medical education programs, but its relationship with informal decisions to entrust residents with clinical tasks is unclear. In addition, the effects of formal entrustment on training practice are still unknown.

Objective

Our objective was to learn from faculty members in training programs with extensive experience in formal entrustment how formal entrustment relates to informal entrustment decisions.

Methods

A questionnaire was e-mailed to all Dutch obstetrics and gynecology program directors to gather information on how faculty entrusts residents with clinical independence. We also interviewed faculty members to explore the relationship between formal entrustment and informal

SUBMITTER: van Loon KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194887 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature