Giving Feedback

Feedback and Assessment Tool

De De Gardner, DrPH, RRT, RRT-NPS, FAARC, FCCP, and Darlene R. Nelson, MD, MHPE, FCCP, share tips on providing feedback and assessments.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the role of an assessment tool for health professional education.
  • Utilize an appropriate validity process for developing an assessment tool.

Effective Verbal and Written Feedback: Pearls and Pitfalls

Gretchen Winter, MD; Saadia A. Faiz, MD, FCCP; and Darlene R. Nelson, MD, MHPE, FCCP, discuss components of good verbal and written feedback, empowering learners to provide feedback in a meaningful, effective, and psychologically safe way.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss components of effective feedback.
  • Recognize pitfalls that may lead to harmful feedback.

Feedback Phrases Bank for Medical Educators

By: Sarah Medrek, MD

Giving feedback helps trainees grow by reinforcing effective behaviors and gently correcting areas for improvement. Keeping feedback brief, timely, and nonconfrontational—offered “just in time” during clinical work—makes it easier for trainees to absorb, builds trust, and supports a positive learning environment. It helps to get comfortable with one of these methods and remember some stock phrases you can use.

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Conference Evaluation Form

From PCCM Conference 

This resource provides a framework for evaluating case conferences based on content, visual aids, and oral presentation.

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High Quality Verbal Feedback

From 2018 APCCMPD

This short handout teaches educators how to provide effective feedback.

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Implementing Peer Comparisons

From CHEST2018 – Faculty Development Forum

This resource provides a list of considerations and possible consequences that should be taken into account when planning and implementing peer comparisons.

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PCCM CCM Grand Rounds Evaluation Form

This resource provides a framework for evaluating grand rounds.

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Tips for Effective Written Feedback

From CHEST 2018: CHEST/ APCCMPD Symposium for the Clinician Educator, Part 3: You Call That Feedback?

This easy-to-use resource provides a list of tips for providing effective feedback.

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