Previous to 08 Midwest Fellowship in Palliative Medicine Graduate Survey
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  1. Are you in a
    Group Practice
    Private Practice
    Fellowship


  1. Please mark all of the following you currently participate in
    Administration
    Teaching
    Direct Clinical Services


  1. How would you rate your personal satisfaction with your current Professional Role?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. During your fellowship, how would you rate the amount of time spent by faculty in teaching fellows?

      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate your clinical experience in terms of amount of responsibility you had for management of cases?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the amount of call experience you had during your fellowship program?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the amount of teaching conferences?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the quality of teaching conferences?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the quality of FACULTY teaching?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate your clinical experience in terms of the variety of clinical problems seen?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the Midwest Fellowship as a training site overall
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the support staff?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the opportunity for research offered during the fellowship?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the opportunity for research offered during the fellowship?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the evaluation process from staff to the residents regarding care of patients?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the communication of the staff about your status in the fellowship program?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate the morale of the fellows during the program?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How would you rate salary and benefits?
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excellent   Poor


  1. How do you feel this fellowship program prepared you for taking your certifying examination (boards)?

     
      1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
    Very Helpful  Not Helpful


  1. In retrospect, how would you rate your training experience in terms of helping prepare you to do what you do now?
     
      1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
    Very Helpful  Not Helpful


  1. Please provide other comments about issues you feel we have not asked about, but would be helpful to us in evaluating this fellowship.


  1. For the following questions please answer if the fellowship program provided educational experiences as needed in order for you to develop specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the competency area identified.

    a. communicate effectively and demonstrate caring and respectful behaviors when interacting with patients and their families
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. b. gather essential and accurate information about patients
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. c. make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. d. develop and carry out patient management plans
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. e. counsel and educate patients and their families
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. f. use information technology to support patient care decisions and patient education
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. g. perform competently all medical and invasive procedures considered essential for the area of practice
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. h. provide health care services aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. i. work with health care professionals, including those from other disciplines, to provide patient-focused care
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. j. demonstrate an investigatory and analytic thinking approach to clinical situations
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. k. know and apply the basic and clinically supportive sciences which are appropriate to their discipline
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. l. analyze practice experience and perform practice-based improvement activities using a systematic methodology
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. m. obtain and use information about their own population of patients and the larger population from which their patients are drawn
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. n. apply knowledge of study designs and statistical methods to the appraisal of clinical studies and other information on diagnostic and therapeutic effectiveness
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. o. use information technology to manage information, access on-line medical information; and support you own education
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. p. facilitate the learning of students and other health care professionals
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. q. create and sustain a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with patients
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. r. use effective listening skills and elicit and provide information using effective nonverbal, explanatory, questioning, and writing skills
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. s. work effectively with others as a member or leader of a health care team or other professional group
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. t. demonstrate respect, compassion, and integrity; a responsiveness to the needs of patients and society that supercedes self-interest; accountability to patients, society, and the profession; and a commitment to excellence and on-going professional development
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. u. demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of clinical care, confidentiality of patient information, informed consent, and business practices
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. v. demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to patients’ culture, age, gender, and disabilities
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. w. understand how your patient care and other professional practices affect other health care professionals, the health care organization, and the larger society and how these elements of the system affect their own practice
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. x. know how types of medical practice and delivery systems differ from one another, including methods of controlling health care costs and allocating resources
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. y. practice cost-effective health care and resource allocation that does not compromise quality of care
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. z. advocate for quality patient care and assist patients in dealing with system know how to partner with health care managers and health care providers to assess, coordinate, and improve health care and know how these activities can affect system performance complexities
     
      1 2 3 4 5  
    Excelled  Failed to Provide


  1. Comments and Suggestions for ways to improve the Midwest Fellowship in Palliative Medicine?





Abbe Leffel
IL