Overall anesthesia department quality of clinical supervision of trainees over a year evaluated using mixed effects models

摘要: BackgroundEarlier studies of supervision in anesthesiology focused on how to evaluate the quality of individual anesthesiologist's clinical supervision of trainees. What is unknown is how to evaluate clinical supervision collectively, as provided by the department's faculty anesthesiologists. This information can be a metric that departments report annually or use to evaluate the effect of programs on the quality of clinical supervision over time.MethodsThis retrospective cohort study used all 48,788 evaluations of the 115 faculty anesthesiologists using the De Oliveira Filho supervision scale completed by 202 residents and fellows over nine academic years at one department.ResultsThe distributions of mean scores among raters had marked negative skewness and were inconsistent with normal distributions. Consequently, accurate confidence intervals were impracticably wide, and their interpretation suggested lack of …