title: Multifactor evaluations of surgical trainees and teaching services.
abstract: Surgical education has been exposed to increasing challenges as students have moved from the highly structured environment of a university hospital into a variety of clinical settings within the community. Presented with a general surgical service that uses ten relatively autonomous teaching services in seven hospitals, we have developed a computer-based evaluation system designed to provide quality control and a feed-back loop for trainee, teacher, and service. Trainees were rated by comparing them to their peers, with the chief resident as a reference standard. Profiles of each teaching service also were developed and compared one to the other. The results of both studies over a one year period are presented.
mesh_terms: D004521:Educational Measurement; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D013663:Teaching