Advocating a bottom-up approach in the teaching of feedback skills to medical students [Letter]

Abstract

Silvia Allikmets,1 Megan Catherine Schwarz21GKT School of Medical Education, King’s College London, London, UK; 2Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Oncological Sciences, New York, NY, USA  Jamshidian et al1 discuss medical teachers’ opinions regarding sources, methods, content, and presentation of feedback. We agree that feedback provision in medical education is beneficial for personal and professional growth, but that it can be relatively poor in quality, particularly regarding “authenticity of data sources,” “data gathering methods,” and “choosing an appropriate feedback presenter.”1  View the original paper by Jamshidian and colleagues

Keywords

• feedback
• medical student
• clinical teaching
• educational performance
• medical education
• emotional intelligence