title: A novel resident-as-teacher training program to improve and evaluate obstetrics and gynecology resident teaching skills.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Residents play a significant role in teaching, but formal training, feedback, and evaluation are needed.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Our aims were to assess resident teaching skills in the resident-as-teacher program, quantify correlations of faculty evaluations with resident self-evaluations, compare resident-as-teacher evaluations with clinical evaluations, and evaluate the resident-as-teacher program.
  
  
  METHODS
  The resident-as-teacher training program is a simulated, videotaped teaching encounter with a trained medical student and standardized teaching evaluation tool. Evaluations from the resident-as-teacher training program were compared to evaluations of resident teaching done by faculty, residents, and medical students from the clinical setting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Faculty evaluation of resident teaching skills in the resident-as-teacher program showed a mean total score of 4.5 ± 0.5 with statistically significant correlations between faculty assessment and resident self-evaluations (r = 0.47; p < 0.001). However, resident self-evaluation of teaching skill was lower than faculty evaluation (mean difference: 0.4; 95% CI 0.3-0.6). When compared to the clinical setting, resident-as-teacher evaluations were significantly correlated with faculty and resident evaluations, but not medical student evaluations. Evaluations from both the resident-as-teacher program and the clinical setting improved with duration of residency.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The resident-as-teacher program provides a method to train, give feedback, and evaluate resident teaching.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Kirstein 315, Boston, MA 02215, USA. hricciot@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Hope A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ricciotti
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Dodge
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Head
authors.forename: K Meredith
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Atkins
authors.forename: Michele R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Hacker
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*; D014743:Videotape Recording