Abstract

Sivasubramaniam Sâ??, Sahni M

There is an immense drive and requirement to obtain feedback on teaching and training provided by the consultant trainers in the U.K. Though the General Medical Council has extensive guidance on this, the existing systems have two main drawbacks. First, it places the onus on the trainer to obtain feedback and hence associated with an innate selection bias while choosing the respondents. Second, the minimum requirement in the U.K. to obtain such feedback is only once every 5 years. With a view to address these issues, we devised a novel system; it used an anonymous method to collect and provide continuous feedback on the consultant trainers in an inner district general hospital. We attempted to study the feasibility of such a feedback system. The feedback system that we used was a yearlong continuous process. We present the interim results for a 5-month period. Trainers had no influence or control over the feedback system. The response rate was 75% and there was an overall positive response, with all trainees rating the overall quality of training and trainers as good or excellent. We described in this paper that our novel feedback method demonstrated that it is feasible to obtain feedback in an anonymous, continuous real time fashion.