Table 1.
Support Staff and Resident Evaluation Characteristics
| Clinic support staff (220 Clinics responding) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Available for residents (where faculty do not see their own patients) N = 80 clinics (36%) | Shared (where faculty see their own patients) N = 141 clinics (64%) | |
| Frequency (%) | Frequency (%) | |
| Clerical | 75 (97%) | 130 (94%) |
| RN | 73 (96%) | 125 (93%) |
| Social worker | 68 (93%) | 105 (79%) |
| Nursing assistant | 61 (90%) | 120 (90%) |
| Office manager | 61 (86%) | 121 (92%) |
| Nutritionist | 48 (83%) | 78 (63%) |
| LPN | 48 (77%) | 97 (76%) |
| Pharmacist | 43 (77%) | 70 (57%) |
| Psychologist | 20 (43%) | 34 (31%) |
| Case manager | 19 (43%) | 45 (39%) |
| Nurse practitioner | 18 (40%) | 54 (46%) |
| Physician assistant | 7 (18%) | 16 (15%) |
| Faculty tools for resident evaluation (219 clinics responding) | ||
| Frequency (%) | ||
| Mini-CEX | 179 (82%) | |
| Standardized written evaluation by supervising faculty | 157 (78%) | |
| Formal written evaluations | 127 (58%) | |
| Evaluation by allied or other clinic personnel | 100 (46%) | |
| Patient evaluation | 82 (37%) | |
| Performance-based chart review of patients in panel | 79 (36%) | |
| CEX (traditional or full clinical evaluation exercise) | 41 (19%) | |
| Individual quality improvement report | 39 (18%) | |
| Videotaped reviews of a patient encounters | 28 (13%) | |
| Standardized patient encounters | 18 (8%) | |
| Other | 15 (7%) | |