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Using 360-degree feedback as part of Senior Medical Performance Review in a public hospital setting. Dr Dale Thomas Director Medical Services Redcliffe Hospital. Overview. Describe the introduction of Senior Medical Performance Review including online 360-degree feedback tool
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Using 360-degree feedback as part of Senior Medical Performance Review in a public hospital setting Dr Dale Thomas Director Medical Services Redcliffe Hospital
Overview • Describe the introduction of Senior Medical Performance Review including online 360-degree feedback tool • Discuss some pitfalls and challenges in how such processes could be adopted more broadly
Performance Appraisal • Well established processes for most professional groups, including junior doctors, but not for senior doctors • Assessing trainees vs expert clinicians • Permanent vs temporary employees • Maintenance of standards vs continuing professional development
Clinician Engagement • Senior medical staff are a valuable resource, but not often given feedback on their performance • Doctors are competitive, high achievers • Even experts can improve their performance
Senior Medical Performance Review • Clinical indicators – complications, re-admission rates, length of stay • Participation in CME/CPD/MOPS • Participation in departmental meetings & clinical audit • Records of mandatory training • 360 degree feedback summary
360 degree feedback tool • Based on a validated questionnaire 1 • Developed following extensive consultation with AMA and unions 2 • Anonymous online tool or paper survey • Ramsey PG, Wenrich MD, Carline JC, et al, Use of peer ratings to evaluate physician performance, JAMA 1993 Apr 7;269(13):1655-1660 • Johnston A, Senior medical performance review: making it happen – the Queensland experience, RACMA Quarterly 2011 Feb, accessed online http://www.racma.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=301:senior-medical-performance-review-making-it-happen-the-queensland-experience&catid=21:the-quarterly-february-2011&Itemid=14
360 degree feedback tool • 9-point Likert rating scale • Clinical domain 9 questions • Team management 4 questions • Interpersonal skills 5 questions • Ethical behaviour 4 questions • Free text strengths & weaknesses • http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SY3BTS7
Implementation at Redcliffe Hospital • Pilot study in Anaesthetic Department • First cohort of 5 anaesthetists in 2010 • Second cohort of 6 consultants in 2011 • Third cohort of 5 anaesthetists in 2013 • Physician cohort of 6 consultants in 2012 • Stratified design allowing subgroup analyses
Sampling methodology 1 • Allowing subjects to choose who to invite to provide feedback • Completed by consultant peers, supervisors, training registrars and nursing/support staff • Collated feedback provided to SMO/VMO for discussion with their Clinical Director
Sampling methodology 2 • Consistent sample for each subject • Respondents • Supervisor/line manager • Consultant anaesthetists • Anaesthetic registrars • Nursing and allied health staff • Proceduralists – i.e. consultant surgeons, obstetricians, gastroenterologists • Optional self-assessment
Response Rate • Managers 94% • Peer consultants 74% • Registrar trainees 57% • Nursing/support 76% • Proceduralists 40% • Self-assessment 81% • Total excluding self 60%
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Results • Higher response rate for subjects who are Staff Specialists (72%) compared with VMO/SMO (44%) • Overall very good quantitative scores from all groups of respondents
Qualitative • 75.5% of respondents provided comments • 63% of comments were positive • Negative comments can be confronting, but were considered more useful by subjects
Feedback to subjects • Quantitative & qualitative results • Summary data included as part of annual PAD process • Inform professional development needs for coming year
Pitfalls & challenges • Choosing your respondents • Online confidentiality concerns • Lower response rates for VMO and non-specialist SMO • Meaningful subgroup analyses • Evaluating effectiveness