[Teacher's performance evaluation in medical specialties courses. An instrument validation]

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Educational Assessment

Background:

• Assessing academic performance in medical specialization is crucial for ensuring quality training.
• Validated instruments are needed to objectively measure resident performance.

Purpose of the Study:

• To validate an instrument designed to assess academic performance in medical specialization courses.

Main Methods:

• Content validity was established through literature review and expert/resident feedback.
• Exploratory factorial analysis was used for construct validity, retaining items with factor loading >= 0.50.
• Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to determine reliability.

Main Results:

• 157 residents evaluated 9 professors with a 75.1% response rate.
• The final questionnaire comprised 37 items, identifying 5 factors explaining 52.5% of the variance.
• The instrument demonstrated high reliability with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.9596.

Conclusions:

• The validated instrument exhibits a high degree of reliability.
• This tool is suitable for the evaluation and pursuit of academic performance in medical specialties courses.