Evaluating medical grand rounds

✍ Scribed by Dr. Arthur I. Rothman; Dr. Gary Sibbald

• Book ID: 102074228
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1912
• DOI: 10.1002/chp.1340220203

✦ Synopsis

Introduction: Since January 2000, standard presenter evaluation forms have been made available to grand rounds organizers in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. During the 2000-2001 academic year, effort was directed at the accumulation of evidence for the validity of the results generated.

Method: Two issues were addressed: the integrity or coherence of the form itself and the number of forms or evaluations required to achieve a stable estimate of the construct "presenter effectiveness" for an individual presenter.

Results: Positive evidence relating to the integrity of the form is presented and the number of evaluations or ratings required to provide a stable estimate of presenter effectiveness is suggested.

Discussion: Most presenters' ratings were distributed in a narrow range. Ranking of individual presentations would require exceptionally high precision. Separation into groups requires less precision. This type of classification appears sufficient to enable planning decisions.