Resident and Faculty Feedback: The Student’s Perspective

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