title: Use of 360-degree assessment of residents in internal medicine in a Danish setting: a feasibility study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of the study was to explore the feasibility of 360 degree assessment in early specialist training in a Danish setting. Present Danish postgraduate training requires assessment of specific learning objectives. Residency in Internal Medicine was chosen for the study. It has 65 learning objectives to be assessed. We considered 22 of these suitable for assessment by 360-degrees assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical departments of six hospitals contributed 42 interns to the study. Each resident was assessed by ten persons of whom one was a secretary, four were nurses and five senior doctors. The assessors spent 14.5 minutes (median) to fill in the forms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 22 chosen objectives, 15 could reliably be assessed by doctors, 7 by nurses and none by secretaries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The method was practical in busy clinical departments and was well accepted by the assessors. Reliability of the method was acceptable. It discrimintated satisfactorily between the good and not so good performers.
authors: Faculty of Medicine, Postgraduate Deanery and Office of Medical Education, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Allerup
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Aspegren
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Ejlersen
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Jørgensen
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Malchow-Møller
authors: M K
authors: MK
authors: Møller
authors: K K
authors: KK
authors: Pedersen
authors: O B
authors: OB
authors: Rasmussen
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Rohold
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Sørensen
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003718:Denmark; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D010820:Physicians; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment