Policy for Evaluating Residents
Goal: It is a policy of this department to evaluate residents in the six areas of competencies as defined by the ACGME: Patient care, Medical knowledge, Practice-based learning, Interpersonal and communication skills, Professionalism and Systems-based practice. The resident will be evaluated in a fashion that is consistent in their level of training and will acknowledge the maturation of their skills. It is our mission to enable our residents to become the best neurologist possible and to provide the best possible enriching environment. Residents will be expected to demonstrate higher responsibility on the basis of satisfactory scholarly and progressive professional growth.
Objectives:
- Each resident will have an assigned faculty member for their specific rotations. Faculty members will receive an evaluation form at the end of the rotation on each resident from the residency coordinator.
- Faculty members will give verbal feedback to the rotating resident midway through the rotation. Faculty will verbally identify to the resident their strengths and weaknesses during their rotation.
- Faculty members will observe the resident during aevaluation of at least one patient or procedure during the rotation.
- Written evaluation forms are to be discussed with the residents, particularly if an unfavorable evaluation is to be made. Feedback to the resident should occur prior to returning the evaluation to the residency coordinator.
- In the event that a resident is performing poorly the resident should be counseled verbally by the faculty. An identified plan for remediation should be in place and the resident should be supported in their efforts to improve their performance.
- All written evaluations are reviewed by the residency coordinator. The residency coordinator will notify the residency director immediately. The residency director will review the evaluations with the resident and delineate a remediation plan.
- A semiannual meeting is held between the resident and the program director to discuss the results of the evaluations.
- The results of the evaluations are one of the tools used to determine promotion of a resident.
- Upon completion of the neurology residency an exit summary will be done and included for the residents review.
Tools utilized: Global Assessments, Clinical Assessment, & In-service Training Results
Progressive Responsibilities for Patient Care and Acquisition of Medical Knowledge
Residents will be evaluated by the clinic attending annually. This evaluation will be based on a direct observation of the resident-patient encounter. The resident will be evaluated on their progression of patient care, medical knowledge and professionalism.
Staff Evaluating Residents:
Residents will be evaluated electronically monthly by their clinical supervisor of service. These evaluations will be found in residency partner.
The training director will meet individually twice a year with each resident and review the evaluations. A summary evaluation will be generated at this time. The resident has the right to review his/her evaluations at any time.
Residents Evaluation by Other Disciplines:
360 evaluations will be distributed to key clinical staff. These evaluations will be included as part of the end of the year resident evaluation.
Residents Evaluation by Patients:
Residents will be asked to obtain 4 evaluations for whom they have provided care to and submit annually.
Emergency resident evaluation:
Any chief resident or attending has the right to suspend a resident’s clinical privileges at any time if she/he believes that the resident is jeopardizing patient care or welfare. Such a decision must be reported to the training director immediately. Within 24 hours (of a workday) the director will convene an ad hoc meeting composed of the chief of service, chief resident, a faculty member of the residents choosing, and the if possible the chairman of the department will convene to make a determination. A written document will be generated and a remediation plan will be formatted.