Transitional Year Residency Program

Evaluation

Resident feedback is both an expectation and a necessity. The Transitional Year Resident will be formally provided feedback by his or her assigned attendings at the mid-point and end of each rotation, in addition to regular feedback during the course of a rotation that is designed to be timely and incident specific. The attending evaluations are complemented by monthly input from nursing and patients as well as through such channels as OSCE’s, portfolio review, and the occasional end-of-rotation examination. Resident performance is additionally reviewed on a quarterly basis with the Program Director who, in turn, reviews that information with the program’s oversight committee, the Transitional Education Committee.

It is our program’s mission to ensure Resident success, and the sequential, integrated system of evaluation in place serves to guarantee that result. The Resident is also afforded the opportunity to evaluate the experience that he or she has each month and is asked to complete a year-end evaluation of the Program and its educational effectiveness [as are the attendings who worked with the Transitional Year Residents that year, the previous year’s graduates, and the Program Directors of our graduates’ categorical residencies]. Quality indicators serve to measure past and present performance while quality improvement serves to ensure future performance!