Goldilocks and Entrustment: Finding the Amount of Learner Autonomy That's Just Right.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Faculty and residents strive for appropriate autonomy and entrustment. Initial direct supervision of clinical care gradually shifts to increasing levels of resident independence over time. Faculty members are inconsistent in resident supervision leading to missed opportunities for resident independence.

Methods

Family medicine faculty workshop participants completed teaching style self-evaluations prior to discussion of clinical examples with excessive or insufficient autonomy. Participants reviewed real resident feedback examples to increase insight into teaching styles. Participants were presented with cases to discuss varying degrees of resident autonomy and entrustment. Learners committed to one specific behavior to calibrate the degree of autonomy they prov

SUBMITTER: Skelly K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7566225 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature