title: Are All Competencies Equal in the Eyes of Residents? A Multicenter Study of Emergency Medicine Residents' Interest in Feedback.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Feedback, particularly real-time feedback, is critical to resident education. The emergency medicine (EM) milestones were developed in 2012 to enhance resident assessment, and many programs use them to provide focused resident feedback. The purpose of this study was to evaluate EM residents' level of interest in receiving real-time feedback on each of the 23 competencies/sub-competencies.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a multicenter cross-sectional study of EM residents. We surveyed participants on their level of interest in receiving real-time on-shift feedback on each of the 23 competencies/sub-competencies. Anonymous paper or computerized surveys were distributed to residents at three four-year training programs and three three-year training programs with a total of 223 resident respondents. Residents rated their level of interest in each milestone on a six-point Likert-type response scale. We calculated average level of interest for each of the 23 sub-competencies, for all 223 respondents and separately by postgraduate year (PGY) levels of training. One-way analyses of variance were performed to determine if there were differences in ratings by level of training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall survey response rate across all institutions was 82%. Emergency stabilization had the highest mean rating (5.47/6), while technology had the lowest rating (3.24/6). However, we observed no differences between levels of training on any of the 23 competencies/sub-competencies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Residents seem to ascribe much more value in receiving feedback on domains involving high-risk, challenging procedural skills as compared to low-risk technical and communication skills. Further studies are necessary to determine whether residents' perceived importance of competencies/sub-competencies needs to be considered when developing an assessment or feedback program based on these 23 EM competencies/sub-competencies.
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medical Education, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bentley
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Messman
authors.affiliation: Yale School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Tiffany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Moadel
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Sorabh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khandelwal
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia, Department of Emergency Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Streich
authors.affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Noelker
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States