In each facility, a mechanism is in place to record all inpatient and outpatient surgery in which the plastic surgery residents participate. The faculty proposes a systematic plan of teaching the history and basic foundations of plastic surgery to our residents which will be integrated with their clinical learning and one that will also be comprehensive and continuos throughout their training period. We believe that the development of an adequate knowledge base for each resident will be greatly facilitated by joint faculty evaluation of clinical performance at the end of each clinical rotation and specific testing. If these evaluations identify a problem area, it will be our responsibility as a faculty to respond appropriately to the special needs of the individual resident, rather than to allow weaknesses to be magnified by time and inattention.
Evaluation is uniform throughout the program.
Standardized clinical performance evaluation forms will be used. Residents will be evaluated by all attending staff who have participated with them in patient management during the rotation by the specific rotation director. Each resident will receive a clinical performance evaluation every three months and at the end of each clinical rotation. The evaluations will be directly discussed with each individual resident by the on-site chief. Each resident will also have a semiannual progress interview with the program director.