Table 2.

Supervisor educational alliance questionnaire

(Registrar response: Never; rarely; occasionally; sometimes; often; very often and always) 1. My supervisor and I agree on how to improve my clinical practice 2. What I am discussing with my supervisor gives me new ways of approaching patient problems 3. I believe my supervisor respects me 4. My supervisor does not understand my training needs 5. I am confident in my supervisor's ability to help me 6. My supervisor and I are working towards mutually agreed-upon goals 7. I feel that my supervisor appreciates my contribution 8. We agree on what is important for me to work on 9. My supervisor and I trust one another 10. My supervisor and I have different ideas on my knowledge gaps 11. We have established a good understanding of the kind of changes that would improve my practice 12. I believe the way we are working with my training is correct The sum of the scores for each domain is as follows: goal dimension questions 4, 6, 10 and 11; task dimension questions 1, 2, 8 and 12; and bond dimension questions 3, 5, 7 and 9 Scoring and benchmarking Positively phrased questions (Never = 1 to Always = 7) Goal questions 4 and 10, negatively phrased (Never = -1 to Always = -7) High – 80% + summed score for the domain, medium 51–79% and low 50% or less