A prospective study to select and evaluate anesthesiology residents: Phase I, the critical incident technique

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 629-636

  Altmaier, Elizabeth M ^a,b   From, Robert P ^a   Pearson, Kent S ^a   Gorbatenko Roth, Kristina G ^c   Ugolini, Kathleen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anesthesiologists: physician performance, residency education and training; Personnel, psychology

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; TRAINING;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031435570     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8180(97)00195-5     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Anwar RA, Bosk C, Greenburg AG: Resident evaluation: is it, can it, should it be objective? J Surg Res 1981;30:27-41.
2. Greenburg AG, McClure DK, Penn NE: Personality traits of surgical house officers: faculty and resident views. Surgery 1982;92:368-72.
3. Flanagan JC: The critical incident technique. Physicol Bull 1954;51:327-58.
4. Schmidt FL, Caplan JR, Bemis SE: BRE Exam Preparation Manual. Washington, DC: Bureau of Recruiting and Examining, US Civil Service Commission, 1977.
5. Cohen J: A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educ Psyho Measure 1960;20:37.
6. McGuire C: Perspective in assessment. Acad Med 1993;68(2 Suppl):S3-8.
7. Arnold L, Willoughby TL: The empirical association between student and resident physician performances. Acad Med 1993;68(2 Suppl):S35-40.
8. Gonnella JS. Hojat M: Relationship between performance in medical school and postgraduate competence. J Med Educ 1983;58:679-85.
9. Gunzburger LK, Frazier RG, Yang LM, Rainey ML, Wronski T: Premedical and medical school performance in predicting first-year residency performance. J Med Educ 1987;62:379-84.
10. Smith SR: Correlations between graduates' performances as first-year residents and their performances as medical students. Acad Med 1993;68:633-4.
11. Markert RJ: Predicting residency performance with the new Medical College Admission Test. Med Educ 1986;20:512-5.
12. Markert RJ: The relationship of academic measures in medical school to performance alter graduation. Acad Med 1993;68(2 Suppl):S31-4.
13. Yindra KJ, Rosenfeld PS, Donnelly MB: Medical school achievements as predictors of residency performance. J Med Educ 1988;63:356-03.
14. Gonnella JS, Hoja M, Erdmann JB, Veloski IJ: A case of mistaken identity: signal and noise in connecting performance assessments before and after graduation from medical school. Acad Med 1993;68(2 Suppl):S9-16.
15. Wood PS, Smith WL, Altmaier EM, Tarico VS, Franken EA Jr: A prospective study of cognitive and noncognitive selection criteria as predictors of resident performance. Invest Radiol 1990;25:855-9.
16. Gardner B: A multivairate computer analysis of students' performances as a predictor of performance as a surgical intern. J.Surg Res 1972;12:216-9.
17. Kron IL, Kaiser DL, Nolan SP, Rudolf LE, Muller WH Jr, Jones RS: Can success in the surgical residency be predicted from pre-residency evaluation? Ann Surg 1985;202:694-5.
18. Kandler H, Plutchik R, Conte H, Siegel B: Prediction of performance of psychiatric residents: a three-year follow-up study. Am J Psuchiatry 1975;132:1286-90.
19. Loftus LS, Arnold L, Willoughby TL, Connolly A: First-year residents' performances compared with their medical school class ranks as determined by three ranking systems. Acad Med 1992;67:319-23.
20. Rhoton MF, Barnes A, Flashhurg M, Ronai A, Springman S: Influence of anesthesiology residents' noncognitive skills on the occurrence of critical incidents and the residents' overall clinical performances. Acad Med 1991;66:359-61.
21. Tarico VS, Altmaier EM, Smith WL, Franken EA Jr, Berbaum KS: Development and validation of an accomplishment interview for radiology residents. J Med Educ 1986;61:845-7.
22. Latham G, Wexley K: Increasing Productivity Through performance Apprasial. New York: Addision-Wesley Publishing Co. 1983.
23. Tarico V, Smith WL, Altmaier E, Franken EA, Van Velzen D: Critical incident interviewing in evaluation of resident performance. Radiology 1984;152:327-9.
24. Tarico VS, Altmaier EM, Smith WL, Franken EA Jr A resident perspective on the radiology residency. The critical incident technique. Invest Radiol 1986;21:877-80.
25. Altmaier EM, Smith WL, O'Halloran CM, Franken EA Jr The predictive utility of behavior-based interviewing compared with traditional interviewing in the selection of radiology residents. Invest Radiol 1992;27:385-9.
26. Altmaier EM, Smith WL, Wood PS, et al: Cross-institutional stability of behavioral criteria desirable for success in radiology, Invest Radiol 1989;24:249-51.