Resident Well-being and Clinical Teaching Assessments

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Authors' Reply, Dr. Jackson raises important concerns regarding “retaliatory evaluations,” which he reports have occurred frequently at his own institution. We agree that this issue has seldom been addressed in the literature. Nonetheless, Ende observed that potential causes for not delivering feedback to learners are that constructive comments may elicit negative emotional reactions, damage teacher-learner relationships, or harm teachers’ reputations.1 He concluded that despite the risk of unintended effects, providing feedback to learners is necessary, valuable, and effective when done properly. Moreover, Stone et al. studied the impacts of anonymity and retaliation on student evaluations of faculty performance, and found that professors were rated more positively by students who signed their evaluations compared with those who submitted anonymous evaluations.2 …