Establishing Psychological Safety to Obtain Feedback for Training Programs: A Novel Cross-Specialty Focus Group Exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Formative feedback from residents is essential to improve residency programs, and focus groups may provide rich information. However, residents may withhold information due to fear of retaliation or speak less candidly to please focus group moderators.

Objective

We assessed participant perceptions and utility of feedback obtained from a confidential focus group exchange between 2 residency programs.

Methods

Anesthesiology and pediatric programs at the same institution participated in 2017. Residents voluntarily provided program feedback during 1 of 2 confidential focus groups for each program. Each focus group was moderated by the program director (PD) of the other specialty. The PDs used thematic analysis to identify themes for use by the respective progra

SUBMITTER: Saddawi-Konefka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699525 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature