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Validating a set of tools designed to assess the perceived quality of training of pediatric residency programs

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Title
Validating a set of tools designed to assess the perceived quality of training of pediatric residency programs
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13052-014-0106-2
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Liviana Da Dalt, Pasquale Anselmi, Sara Furlan, Silvia Carraro, Eugenio Baraldi, Egidio Robusto, Giorgio Perilongo

Abstract

BackgroundThe Paediatric Residency Program (PRP) of Padua, Italy, developed a set of questionnaires to assess the quality of the training provided by each faculty member, the quality of the professional experience the residents experienced during the various rotations and the functioning of the Resident Affair Committee (RAC), named respectively: ¿Tutor Assessment Questionnaire¿ (TAQ), ¿Rotation Assessment Questionnaire¿ (RAQ), and RAC Assessment Questionnaire¿. The process that brought to their validation are herein presented.MethodBetween July 2012 and July 2013, 51 residents evaluated 26 tutors through the TAQ, and 25 rotations through the RAQ. Forty-eight residents filled the RAC Assessment Questionnaire. The three questionnaires were validated through a many-facet Rasch measurement analysis.ResultsIn their final form, the questionnaires produced measures that were valid, reliable, unidimensional, and free from gender biases. TAQ and RAQ distinguished tutors and rotations into 5¿6 levels of different quality and effectiveness. The three questionnaires allowed the identification of strengths and weaknesses of tutors, rotations, and RAC. The agreement observed among judges was coherent to the predicted values, suggesting that no particular training is required for developing a shared interpretation of the items.ConclusionsThe work herein presented serves to enrich the armamentarium of tools that resident medical programs can use to monitor their functioning. A larger application of these tools will serve to consolidate and refine further the results presented.

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Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Librarian 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Other 12 41%
Unknown 2 7%
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Medicine and Dentistry 10 34%
Social Sciences 5 17%
Engineering 3 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 7%
Unspecified 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 4 14%
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