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Table 3 Narrative feedback on all submitted workplace-based assessment (WBA) forms during psychiatry clerkship rotations between March and November 2019

From: Workplace-based assessments of entrustable professional activities in a psychiatry core clerkship: an observational study

Content and quality

Applied codesa

Proportion of WBA forms (n = 271)

Medical Expertb

 

Application of knowledge

(clinical skills/clinical decision making)

46% (n = 125)

Communication, compassion

25% (n = 69)

Knowledge base

5% (n = 13)

Clinical care and safety

0.4% (n = 1)

Communicator

 
 

Written

13% (n = 35)

Oral

2% (n = 5)

Professional

 

Work ethic

7% (n = 18)

Conduct

6% (n = 15)

Work skills

4% (n = 11)

Collaborator

 

Team player

1% (n = 3)

Not related to CanMEDS roles

 

Entrustment

8% (n = 21)

On-rotation improvement

3% (n = 7)

Attitude

1% (n = 4)

Norm reference

0.4% (n = 1)

Quality indicators of feedback

 

Reinforcement

59% (n = 161)

EPA-specific

42% (n = 113)

Actionable

32% (n = 87)

Key point identification

32% (n = 86)

Strategy development

16% (n = 42)

Self-awareness

8% (n = 23)

  1. aCodes derived from sources described in the methods section
  2. bCorresponding CanMEDS roles as referenced in Principal Relevant Objectives and Framework for Integrative Learning and Education in Switzerland (PROFILES), http://www.profilesmed.ch/. We found no feedback narratives corresponding to the roles of Leader/Manager, Health Advocate, or Scholar