Purpose Learning from practice is important for continuous improvement of practice. Yet little
is known about how physicians assimilate clinical feedback and use it to refine their …

Purpose Physicians routinely transition responsibility for patient care to other physicians.
When transitions of responsibility occur before the clinical outcome is known, physicians …

When physicians transition patients, the physician taking over may change the diagnosis.
Such a change could serve as an important source of clinical feedback to the prior …

Background The case presentation is a fundamental activity used in both patient care and
trainee education, partly due to feedback from supervisor to trainee. Although feedback in …

Context Transitions of patient care responsibility occur frequently between physicians.
Resultant discontinuities make it difficult for physicians to observe clinical outcomes. Little is …

Objectives Practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is an ACGME (Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education) core competency. Learning and reflecting on …

Introduction After patient care transitions occur, communication from the current physician
back to the transferring physician may be an important source of clinical feedback for …

Feedback is defined as a regulatory mechanism where the effect of an action is fed back to
modify and improve future action. In medical education, newer conceptualizations of …

Feedback at the workplace provides important learning opportunities for health care
professionals. Both providing feedback1 and receiving feedback are prone to common …

Background Supervisors in postgraduate medical education may deliver different feedback
for the same quality of performance. Residents may struggle to make sense of inconsistent …