[No education without feedback: why and how to give it in the clinical setting]

The number of medical students and doctors in training is growing, particularly in private practices due to the promotion of the internal medicine and primary care curriculum. Therefore, doctors increasingly find themselves in a teaching role with the responsibility to give feedback to the people in training. This article aims to give the definition of feedback and to review the reasons for its central role in pre- and postgraduate medical education. We describe the opportunities and barriers to giving feedback, how to make it effective and present a selection of frequently used feedback models.