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Assessing supervisor versus trainee viewpoints of entrustment through cognitive and affective lenses: an artificial intelligence investigation of bias in feedback

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Gin, Brian C., ten Cate, Olle, O’Sullivan, Patricia S., Boscardin, Christy·2024·Advances in Health Sciences Education

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The entrustment framework redirects assessment from considering only trainees’ competence to decision-making about their readiness to perform clinical tasks independently. Since trainees and supervisors both contribute to entrustment decisions, we examined the cognitive and affective factors that underly their negotiation of trust, and whether trainee demographic characteristics may bias them. Using a document analysis approach, we adapted large language models (LLMs) to examine feedback dialogs (N = 24,187, each with an associated entrustment rating) between medical student trainees and their clinical supervisors. We compared how trainees and supervisors differentially documented feedback dialogs about similar tasks by identifying qualitative themes and quantitatively assessing their correlation with entrustment ratings. Supervisors’ themes predominantly reflected skills related to patient presentations, while trainees’ themes were broader—including clinical performance and personal qualities. To examine affect, we trained an LLM to measure feedback sentiment. On average, trainees used more negative language (5.3% lower probability of positive sentiment, p < 0.05) compared to supervisors, while documenting higher entrustment ratings (+ 0.08 on a 1–4 scale, p < 0.05). We also found biases tied to demographic characteristics: trainees’ documentation reflected more positive sentiment in the case of male trainees (+ 1.3%, p < 0.05) and of trainees underrepresented in medicine (UIM) (+ 1.3%, p < 0.05). Entrustment ratings did not appear to reflect these biases, neither when documented by trainee nor supervisor. As such, bias appeared to influence the emotive language trainees used to document entrustment more than the degree of entrustment they experienced. Mitigating these biases is nonetheless important because they may affect trainees’ assimilation into their roles and formation of trusting relationships.

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Authors
Gin, B. C., ten Cate, O., O’Sullivan, P. S., & Boscardin, C.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Gin, Brian C.
Venue
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Published
2024-02-23
Volume
29
Issue
5
Pages
1571-1592
ISSN
  • 1382-4996 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-1677
OpenAlex
W4392773752
Cited by
14
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3
FWCI
5.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
Keywords
entrustment, clinical supervision, medical trainees, supervisor feedback, large language models, gender bias, underrepresented in medicine, emotional factors, cognitive factors, clinical competence assessment, medical education
MeSH terms
Formative Feedback, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Competence, Cognition, Feedback, Female, Humans, Male, Students, Medical, Bias, Trust

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