Evaluating the SPIKES Model for Improving Peer-to-Peer Feedback Among Internal Medicine Residents: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Feedback improves trainee clinical performance, but the optimal way to provide it remains unclear. Peer feedback offers unique advantages but comes with significant challenges including a lack of rigorously studied methods. The SPIKES framework is a communication tool adapted from the oncology and palliative care literature for teaching trainees how to lead difficult conversations.

Objective

To determine if a brief educational intervention focused on the SPIKES framework improves peer feedback between internal medicine trainees on inpatient medicine services as compared to usual practice.

Design

Randomized, controlled trial at an academic medical center during academic year 2017-2018.

Participants

Seventy-five PGY1 and 49 PGY2 internal medicine train

SUBMITTER: Kistler EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606477 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature