{"id":1406,"date":"2010-01-15T23:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/evaluations\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:12","slug":"evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/15\/evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/jwatch\/peds\/content\/full\/2010\/106\/3\">Journal Watch summary <\/a>of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/nejm\/content\/full\/362\/1\/6\">recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> made me consider further an issue that seems to be all-consuming: evaluations.\u00a0In training programs across the country, we are required to\u00a0give and receive\u00a0evaluations on a regular basis. The goal, at least in part,\u00a0seems straightforward enough &#8212; trainees require feedback to effectively change (or maintain) certain behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>In many programs, these evaluations are done\u00a0in the \u201c360\u201d style; that is, fellows evaluate fellows, nurses evaluate fellows, patients evaluate fellows\u2026well, you get the idea.\u00a0The benefits of these circular evaluations is apparent \u2013- feedback early in the course of training may be one of the most effect means for reinforcing good behaviors and remodeling bad ones. The potential drawback is\u00a0also apparent, although much less discussed and, in reality, quite rare; we all have nightmares about a colleague or patient with an axe to grind making something up or blowing\u00a0something\u00a0out of proportion in order to get us in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these evaluations?\u00a0 Is constructive criticism from your colleagues helpful or possibly hurtful?\u00a0 Do you find evaluations of your attendings a beneficial practice?\u00a0 Are you at all afraid to be honest in evaluations of peers because you want to avoid confrontations and avoid attending evaluations so as to avoid possible repercussions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Journal Watch summary of a\u00a0recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine made me consider further an issue that seems to be all-consuming: evaluations.\u00a0In training programs across the country, we are required to\u00a0give and receive\u00a0evaluations on a regular basis. The goal, at least in part,\u00a0seems straightforward enough &#8212; trainees require feedback to effectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}