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Evaluation and Feedback

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This chapter reviews the educational, cultural, and linguistic factors that contribute to international medical graduate physicians’ perceptions of feedback and self-assessment as high-risk behaviors. Lack of exposure in medical school to feedback, limited role modeling of self-reflection, and an emphasis on certain cultural values all contribute to a high level of anxiety about the feedback process. This anxiety can be interpreted by faculty as disinterest or lack of motivation. Functioning in a second language can impact relationships with patients and supervisors’ assessment of residents’ capabilities.

Practical guidelines for the giving and receiving of specific behaviorally based feedback and for organization of clinical skills verification examinations are offered. The relationship between feedback and evaluation is reviewed.

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  1. Office of Residency Affairs, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 301 North 8th Street, Springfield, IL, 62701, USA

    Karen Broquet M.D.

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    Karen Broquet M.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Medicine and Public Health and Department of Preventive Medicine, SUNY-Upstate Medical University and Hospital, 750 E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    Mantosh Dewan M.D.

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Broquet, K., Dewan, M. (2016). Evaluation and Feedback. In: Rao, N., Roberts, L. (eds) International Medical Graduate Physicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39460-2_4

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