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Who Wants Feedback? An Investigation of the Variables Influencing Residents’ Feedback-Seeking Behavior in Relation to Night Shifts

Teunissen, Pim W., Stapel, Diederik A., van der Vleuten, Cees, Scherpbier, Albert, Boor, Klarke, Scheele, Fedde·2009·Academic Medicine
DOI 10.1097/acm.0b013e3181a858ad
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PURPOSE: The literature on feedback in clinical medical education has predominantly treated trainees as passive recipients. Past research has focused on how clinical supervisors can use feedback to improve a trainee's performance. On the basis of research in social and organizational psychology, the authors reconceptualized residents as active seekers of feedback. They investigated what individual and situational variables influence residents' feedback-seeking behavior on night shifts. METHOD: Early in 2008, the authors sent obstetrics-gynecology residents in the Netherlands--both those in their first two years of graduate training and those gaining experience between undergraduate and graduate training--a questionnaire that assessed four predictor variables (learning and performance goal orientation, and instrumental and supportive leadership), two mediator variables (perceived feedback benefits and costs), and two outcome variables (frequency of feedback inquiry and monitoring). They used structural equation modeling software to test a hypothesized model of relationships between variables. RESULTS: The response rate was 76.5%. Results showed that residents who perceive more feedback benefits report a higher frequency of feedback inquiry and monitoring. More perceived feedback costs result mainly in more feedback monitoring. Residents with a higher learning goal orientation perceive more feedback benefits and fewer costs. Residents with a higher performance goal orientation perceive more feedback costs. Supportive physicians lead residents to perceive more feedback benefits and fewer costs. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that some residents actively seek feedback. Residents' feedback-seeking behavior partially depends on attending physicians' supervisory style. Residents' goal orientations influence their perceptions of the benefits and costs of feedback-seeking.

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  • The relationship between goal orientation and increased frequency of feedback seeking holds in a population of postgraduate medical trainees.

    “Teunissen et al. showed that this relationship between goal orientation and increased frequency of feedback seeking also holds in a population of postgraduate medical trainees [20].”

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Authors
Teunissen, P. W., Stapel, D. A., van der Vleuten, C., Scherpbier, A., Boor, K., & Scheele, F.
Corresponding author
Teunissen, Pim W.
ORCID
Venue
Academic Medicine
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2009-07
Volume
84
Issue
7
Pages
910-917
ISSN
1040-2446 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1097/acm.0b013e3181a858ad
OpenAlex
W1986803359
Cited by
151
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 13
FWCI
9.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Academic Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
Keywords
feedback-seeking behavior, medical residents, night shift work, goal orientation, learning objectives, performance goals, supportive leadership, instrumental leadership, feedback monitoring, clinical supervision, obstetrics and gynecology residency
MeSH terms
Achievement, Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Clinical Competence, Feedback, Female, Goals, Gynecology, Humans, Internship and Residency, Leadership, Male, Mentors, Motivation, Netherlands, Night Care, Obstetrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Interdisciplinary Communication

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