Laury de Jonge - PhD project data for study 4

The aim of this study is to gain insight whether and how supervisor-resident dyads build an educational alliance, and how they discuss and align goals and approaches to observation in particular. We used a qualitative, social constructivist approach to explore if and how supervisory dyads’ work towards alignment of goals and preferred approaches to performance observations.

Data were collected from a series of semi-structured interviews with supervisor-resident dyads and analysed using template analysis. In supervisory dyads, explicit communication on the use of observations of clinical performance was scarce. The employ of observations seemed to be driven by their goals to guard patient safety and to prepare for external assessment, and, in comparison, less by purposes of providing developmental feedback.