Background
Feedback from faculty members and residents is a critical component
of undergraduate medical education. Little is known about how
students assess the adequacy of feedback from faculty and residents.
Purpose
To report medical students’ evaluations of clinical teacher feedback
and to determine if students assess feedback given by residents
differently than they assess feedback given by faculty.
Methods
Data were retrospectively collected from medical students’ responses
to end-of-clerkship questionnaire items that evaluated feedback from
residents and attending physicians. The mean ratings of faculty
feedback in four clerkships were compared with the mean ratings of
resident feedback within each academic year from 1998 to 2002
