What Feedback Content Do Clinical Teachers Address During OSTEs?

Robin Lüchinger,1 Matteo Coen,1,2 Anne-Claire Bréchet Bachmann,2 Sara de Oliveira,3 Hélène Richard-Lepouriel,4 Noëlle Junod Perron1,5 1Unit of Research and Development in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 2Department of Primary Care Medicine, Universi...

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Main Authors: Lüchinger R, Coen M, Bréchet Bachmann AC, de Oliveira S, Richard-Lepouriel H, Junod Perron N
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description Robin Lüchinger,1 Matteo Coen,1,2 Anne-Claire Bréchet Bachmann,2 Sara de Oliveira,3 Hélène Richard-Lepouriel,4 Noëlle Junod Perron1,5 1Unit of Research and Development in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 2Department of Primary Care Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 3Department of Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 4Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 5Medical Directorate, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandCorrespondence: Robin Lüchinger, Unit of Research and Development in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, Geneva, 1205, Switzerland, Tel +41 22  379 59 44, Email Robin.luechinger@unige.chPurpose: How to give feedback is widely taught and assessed during Faculty Development programs. As part of such programs, clinical teachers can attend objective structured teaching sessions (OSTEs), during which they are asked to give feedback to simulated residents on different tasks. Study aimed at: -analysing the feedback content provided during these OSTEs; -evaluating the impact of the training phase, medical discipline, or observed task; -assessing the alignment between feedback content addressed by clinical teachers and content identified as essential by experts.Methods: We conducted a multimethod study. Clinical teachers (N=89) from five departments were trained to give feedback to residents in a six-month training program. Before and after training, they completed three OSTE stations which focused on tasks involving communication, interprofessional, physical exam or procedural skills. We analysed feedback content descriptively. ANOVA test was applied to evaluate feedback contents’ influencing factors (ie participants’ training phase, medical discipline, type of task addressed). For each OSTE, we analysed the percentage of items identified as essential by 3 experts that were addressed by clinical teachers during the feedback.Results: We analysed 317 feedback sessions and coded 5388 occurrences. Feedback content distribution was: targeted content (73%), other clinical content (20%), learning strategies (4%), and self-management/other (3%). Feedback was often negative (73%). The training phase did not influence the content addressed while the topic of the observed task and clinical teachers’ specialization slightly did. Alignment between content identified by experts and addressed by clinical teachers during OSTEs was low (3– 38%).Conclusion: Clinical teachers give mostly negative and targeted feedback according to the task. The poor alignment in selecting key content to be addressed is striking and should be further explored since clinical teachers may address elements of competence more according to their personal preferences than to residents’ needs and context priorities.Keywords: OSTEs, feedback content, clinical teacher, simulation, chief residents, fellow
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spelling doaj.art-1568a2d379f246edabc5a7480d82baa12023-12-07T18:03:42ZengDove Medical PressAdvances in Medical Education and Practice1179-72582023-12-01Volume 141357136788829What Feedback Content Do Clinical Teachers Address During OSTEs?Lüchinger RCoen MBréchet Bachmann ACde Oliveira SRichard-Lepouriel HJunod Perron NRobin Lüchinger,1 Matteo Coen,1,2 Anne-Claire Bréchet Bachmann,2 Sara de Oliveira,3 Hélène Richard-Lepouriel,4 Noëlle Junod Perron1,5 1Unit of Research and Development in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 2Department of Primary Care Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 3Department of Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 4Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 5Medical Directorate, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandCorrespondence: Robin Lüchinger, Unit of Research and Development in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, Geneva, 1205, Switzerland, Tel +41 22  379 59 44, Email Robin.luechinger@unige.chPurpose: How to give feedback is widely taught and assessed during Faculty Development programs. As part of such programs, clinical teachers can attend objective structured teaching sessions (OSTEs), during which they are asked to give feedback to simulated residents on different tasks. Study aimed at: -analysing the feedback content provided during these OSTEs; -evaluating the impact of the training phase, medical discipline, or observed task; -assessing the alignment between feedback content addressed by clinical teachers and content identified as essential by experts.Methods: We conducted a multimethod study. Clinical teachers (N=89) from five departments were trained to give feedback to residents in a six-month training program. Before and after training, they completed three OSTE stations which focused on tasks involving communication, interprofessional, physical exam or procedural skills. We analysed feedback content descriptively. ANOVA test was applied to evaluate feedback contents’ influencing factors (ie participants’ training phase, medical discipline, type of task addressed). For each OSTE, we analysed the percentage of items identified as essential by 3 experts that were addressed by clinical teachers during the feedback.Results: We analysed 317 feedback sessions and coded 5388 occurrences. Feedback content distribution was: targeted content (73%), other clinical content (20%), learning strategies (4%), and self-management/other (3%). Feedback was often negative (73%). The training phase did not influence the content addressed while the topic of the observed task and clinical teachers’ specialization slightly did. Alignment between content identified by experts and addressed by clinical teachers during OSTEs was low (3– 38%).Conclusion: Clinical teachers give mostly negative and targeted feedback according to the task. The poor alignment in selecting key content to be addressed is striking and should be further explored since clinical teachers may address elements of competence more according to their personal preferences than to residents’ needs and context priorities.Keywords: OSTEs, feedback content, clinical teacher, simulation, chief residents, fellowhttps://www.dovepress.com/what-feedback-content-do-clinical-teachers-address-during-ostes-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-AMEPostesfeedback contentclinical teachersimulationchief residentsfellow
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