P H D R E P O RT Evaluating clinicians' teaching performance

Abstract

performance are usually a preliminary, although essential, activity in quality management and improvement activities This thesis focused on testing the validity, reliability and impact of the SETQ across specialities and settings. Most importantly, we studied (1) whether the SETQ instruments (questionnaires) can be used to evaluate clinicians' teaching performance across specialities and centres with satisfactory validity and reliability and (2) whether clinicians' teaching performance improved after receiving performance feedback. Finally, to get an indication of the predictive (criterion) validity of the SETQ evaluation scores, we studied (3) how clinicians' teaching performance scores were related to their role modelling. The system for evaluation of teaching qualities (SETQ) The SETQ was developed and preliminarily tested by Lombarts et al