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Insightful Practice: a robust measure of medical students’ professional response to feedback on their performance

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, August 2015
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Title
Insightful Practice: a robust measure of medical students’ professional response to feedback on their performance
Published in
BMC Medical Education, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0406-2
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Authors

Douglas Murphy, Patricia Aitchison, Virginia Hernandez Santiago, Peter Davey, Gary Mires, Dilip Nathwani

Abstract

Healthcare professionals need to show accountability, responsibility and appropriate response to audit feedback. Assessment of Insightful Practice (engagement, insight and appropriate action for improvement) has been shown to offer a robust system, in general practice, to identify concerns in doctors' response to independent feedback. This study researched the system's utility in medical undergraduates. Setting and participants: 28 fourth year medical students reflected on their performance feedback. Reflection was supported by a staff coach. Students' portfolios were divided into two groups (n = 14). Group 1 students were assessed by three staff assessors (calibrated using group training) and Group 2 students' portfolios were assessed by three staff assessors (un-calibrated by one-to-one training). Assessments were by blinded web-based exercise and assessors were senior Medical School staff. Case series with mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. A feedback dataset was specified as (1) student-specific End-of-Block Clinical Feedback, (2) other available Medical School assessment data and, (3) an assessment of students' identification of prescribing errors. Analysis and statistical tests: Generalisability G-theory and associated Decision D- studies were used to assess the reliability of the system and a subsequent recommendation on students' suitability to progress training. One-to-one interviews explored participants' experiences. The primary outcome measure was inter-rater reliability of assessment of students' Insightful Practice. Secondary outcome measures were the reaction of participants and their self-reported behavioural change. The method offered a feasible and highly reliable global assessment for calibrated assessors, G (inter-rater reliability) > 0.8 (two assessors), but not un-calibrated assessors G < 0.31. Calibrated assessment proved an acceptable basis to enhance feedback and identify concern in professionalism. Students reported increased awareness in teamwork and in the importance of heeding advice. Coaches reported improvement in their feedback skills and commitment to improving the quality of student feedback. Insightful practice offers a reliable and feasible method to evaluate medical undergraduates' professional response to their training feedback. The piloted system offers a method to assist the early identification of students at risk and monitor, where required, the remediation of students to get their level(s) of professional response to feedback back 'on track'.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 163 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 18%
Researcher 24 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 5%
Other 39 24%
Unknown 37 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 23%
Psychology 24 15%
Social Sciences 19 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 9%
Decision Sciences 5 3%
Other 26 16%
Unknown 38 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 August 2015.
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#7,169,303
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,240
of 3,504 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#81,669
of 265,726 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#15
of 40 outputs
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