Using a Modified 360° Multisource Feedback Model to Evaluate Surgery Residents in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Background: Traditionally, the residents ‘competencies such as professionalism, interpersonal and communication skill have been assessed merely based on their faculty’ point of view without feedback. These assessments were neither efficiently, nor sufficiently cover the multi aspects` of residents ‘competencies. These multi aspects competences mandate the need for more all-around evaluations such as 360° degree. The purpose of the present study was to apply the 360° multisource feedback model for assessing the surgery residents` competencies of Shiraz university of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross sectional study was performed on 48 residents of the second and third year who were working in the surgery departments. The data were gathered using translated questioners on a 5-point likert scale and distributed to 3 raters (nurses, faculty members and peers). The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were approved by some experts. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation Coefficient, General Linear Model, T- test and SPSS (17) software. Results: The Internal Consistency reliabilities were up to 80% for all questionnaire. The Pearson correlation co-efficient was significant between the scores given by faculty members and peers (r=0.3, p=0.01). The highest mean score given by the evaluators to residents belonged to the Coworker group (149.6, ±17.23). The third-year residents gave themselves significantly higher scores in comparison with the second year residents (P value=0.01). Conclusions: High Cronbach’s α demonstrates that the translated questioners were reliable. It seems that based on the valid and reliable results of this study, the 360° multisource feedback model is a good frame work for surgery resident’s assessment in Iran.