Asking the Parents: Implementing a Pediatric Patient feedback form in Medical Student’s Clinical Sessions

Our previous research project identified the most important areas of feedback that parents of pediatric patients and simulated patients (SPs) would want to comment on, as well as the areas medical students and residents would want to hear about from patients. We have developed short, easy-to-use parent and SP feedback forms for medical learners.

Our objective is to evaluate the feedback forms during pediatric clinical sessions of medical students and family medicine or pediatric residents, as well as clinical sessions with SPs for year 1 and 2 medical students. We will determine if the developed feedback forms can provide medical learners with meaningful feedback regarding their patient-centered skills, as well as allow parents and patients to shape the medical education of future physicians.  

We plan to collect 100 parent and 50 SP feedback forms during the academic year. We will then interview 20 medical learners on the usefulness of the feedback they received, as well as 20 parents and SPs on the ease of use of the form. De-identified survey data will be aggregated and shared with learners and clinical preceptors. Categorical variables will be summarized in counts and percentages. We will perform qualitative analyses of the interviews.