Evaluations
Faculty members evaluate the fellows on all of the inpatient rotations for competence in patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal skills and communication, professionalism and systems based practice. Charts are audited daily by the attending physician and daily feedback to the fellow provided. The Program Director meets with each fellow once per year, and the Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee meets with each fellow once per year to review these evaluations. The progress of the fellows is followed by the Clinical Competency Committee, which meets several times each year. Fellows also evaluate faculty on the inpatient and outpatient rotations at the end of each rotation. These anonymous evaluations are summarized for individual faculty and for the program director and are used to counsel faculty and to assign faculty to specific teaching rotations. Fellows evaluate the program on an annual basis (anonymously) and these evaluations are used to develop programmatic changes.
A written evaluation of the clinical competence of each fellow is prepared annually by the the Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee and Program director. The goals and objectives and outcomes of the fellowship training program are reviewed and discussed by the faculty at regular faculty meetings, and by the fellows with the program director at least twice each year.