A measurement process for evaluating clinical teachers in internal medicine

With input from faculty members and residents in the internal medicine residency training program at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., the authors developed a form to evaluate attending physicians in clinical teaching units according to 14 domains of performance. Although brief, the form included all main areas of teacher performance, allowed specification of attending physician behaviour and differentiated areas of strengths and weaknesses between and within attending physicians. The authors describe the new evaluation process and the results for 41 attending physicians.