Strategies for providing effective feedback during preceptorship: Perspectives from an Omani hospital

Preceptor development: providing effective feedback.

Feedback plays a significant role in precepting and is indispensable in residency training. As described by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the goal of any postgraduate residency program is to prepare individual trainees to function as qualified practitioners. Although feedback and evaluations have traditionally been synonymous, our goal is to differentiate the two and...

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies

Perspectives and strategies for effective nutrition education.

A prerequisite for a discussion of effective nutrition education is the establishment of the premise that nutrition is a specific and separate branch of the life sciences. The nutritionist must be similarly identifiable as having a distinct role and professional function. Recent discussions of the state of nutrition have been equivocal on this point: the Neuberger report (ARC/MRC Committee, 197...

Providing constructive feedback to students during mentoring.

The need to provide students with regular feedback on their performance is integral to the assessment process, but not all mentors feel confident to do this. This article highlights the benefits of providing constructive feedback for both the mentor and the student. Five principles associated with giving constructive feedback are discussed. The importance of preparing for feedback, ensuring it ...

Challenges of providing timely feedback to residents: Faculty perspectives.

OBJECTIVE To explore faculty's perceptions of challenges in providing verbal feedback to the Residents and suggest ways to overcome the barriers. METHODS As part of a larger study on feedback assessment, five focus group discussions were conducted at the Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, during faculty development workshops held from January to June 2010. Qualitat...