Faculty Development and Supervision Flashcards
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A clinical educator repeatedly praises a resident's communication skills when evaluating their procedural competency. Which rater error is occurring?
Answer: Halo effect
The halo effect occurs when a positive impression in one domain inappropriately influences ratings in unrelated domains.
Which ACGME Core Competency is MOST directly addressed when a faculty development program trains attendings to teach evidence-based medicine at the bedside?
Answer: Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement includes using evidence from scientific studies and applying it to patient care and teaching.
An institution wants faculty to integrate wellness conversations into resident supervision. Which approach is MOST effective for sustaining this behavior change?
Answer: Longitudinal faculty coaching with accountability check-ins
Longitudinal coaching with accountability structures produces sustained behavioral change more reliably than single didactic events or passive interventions.
Which ACGME requirement mandates that programs must have a process to assess whether faculty members are meeting their supervisory and teaching responsibilities?
Answer: Faculty evaluation by residents and the program
ACGME requires programs to evaluate faculty performance using data that includes resident assessments of faculty teaching and supervision.
A new faculty member trained in a different specialty is asked to supervise subspecialty procedures outside their training. What is the program director's FIRST obligation?
Answer: Verify competency before granting supervisory privileges
Programs must ensure that supervising faculty have documented competence in the specific skills they are overseeing before assigning supervisory roles.
In the setting of faculty development, 'deliberate practice' is BEST characterized by which approach?
Answer: Focused repetitive practice on specific skills with immediate corrective feedback
Deliberate practice, as defined by Ericsson, involves focused repetition on targeted skills with immediate, specific feedback to drive improvement.
A program director wants to identify faculty who may need additional development support. Which data source provides the MOST direct evidence of a faculty member's teaching effectiveness?
Answer: Resident evaluations of faculty teaching
Resident evaluations of faculty provide direct, observable data on teaching effectiveness from the perspective of the learners being supervised.