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Examining gender bias in the feedback shared with family medicine residents.
Education for Primary Care 2017 November
OBJECTIVES: Competency-based education places increasing emphasis on formative feedback to learners as part of the assessment process. We wished to determine if gender bias was present in the feedback shared with post-graduate medical trainees (residents) in a two-year family medicine residency program at a Canadian university.
METHODS: We performed secondary data analyses of documented feedback (FieldNotes) extracted from the Competency-Based Achievement System database. Between 2012 and 2016, 464 preceptors (188 female (F); 276 male (M)) wrote in total 7316 FieldNotes for 192 residents (104 F; 88 M), forming four gender dyads. Descriptive statistics were used to examine trends in FieldNotes frequencies, competencies (Sentinel Habits; SH), progress levels (PL), and the use of adjectives (agentic/competency-based; communal/warmth-based) by preceptors in the FieldNotes.
RESULTS: Male and female preceptors wrote on average 7 and 14 FieldNotes, respectively. Female residents received on average more feedback comments from female preceptors (7 notes) than from male preceptors (4 notes). The M-M and M-F resident-preceptor dyads had, respectively, the least and the most 'Stop, Important correction' FieldNotes in both the PGY1 and PGY2 groups. Although preceptors used agentic adjectives more frequently than communal adjectives overall, the F-M resident-preceptor dyad contained the highest proportion of communal adjectives and the lowest proportion of agentic adjectives.
CONCLUSIONS: Residents would benefit from multiple opportunities for feedback from both male and female preceptors throughout their residency training. Faculty development to bring attention to potential gender bias may be useful to ensure equitable teaching and quality feedback for learners.
METHODS: We performed secondary data analyses of documented feedback (FieldNotes) extracted from the Competency-Based Achievement System database. Between 2012 and 2016, 464 preceptors (188 female (F); 276 male (M)) wrote in total 7316 FieldNotes for 192 residents (104 F; 88 M), forming four gender dyads. Descriptive statistics were used to examine trends in FieldNotes frequencies, competencies (Sentinel Habits; SH), progress levels (PL), and the use of adjectives (agentic/competency-based; communal/warmth-based) by preceptors in the FieldNotes.
RESULTS: Male and female preceptors wrote on average 7 and 14 FieldNotes, respectively. Female residents received on average more feedback comments from female preceptors (7 notes) than from male preceptors (4 notes). The M-M and M-F resident-preceptor dyads had, respectively, the least and the most 'Stop, Important correction' FieldNotes in both the PGY1 and PGY2 groups. Although preceptors used agentic adjectives more frequently than communal adjectives overall, the F-M resident-preceptor dyad contained the highest proportion of communal adjectives and the lowest proportion of agentic adjectives.
CONCLUSIONS: Residents would benefit from multiple opportunities for feedback from both male and female preceptors throughout their residency training. Faculty development to bring attention to potential gender bias may be useful to ensure equitable teaching and quality feedback for learners.
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