Clinical Teaching Performance: Design and Validation of an Evaluation Instrument

Abstract

Introduction: clinical teaching in the training of the health professional is essential, being carried out by professionals who do not necessarily have teaching training, who certify the acquisition of disciplinary and generic competences.
Objective: to design and validate an instrument for to evaluate the performance of the clinical teacher.
Method: non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive research. The instrument was designed based on a literature review, qualitative exploration (4 focus groups of 10 students each and 4 in-depth interviews with clinical teachers), 31 items emerged related to the role of the clinical teacher. It was applied to 443 students of the Faculty of Medicine in the second semester of 2017, who signed informed consent and institutional authorization. The responses were collected on a Likert scale 1 (never) 5 (always). Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to validate the instrument’s construct using robust methods (Satorra-Bentler), internal consistency through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient
Results: the instrument has a high Cronbach’s alpha value of 0,97. Four factors were identified: (i) Personal qualities (8 items, α=0,88); (ii) Pedagogical skills (12 items, α=0,95); (iii) Evaluation skills (6 items, α=0,9) and (iv) Clinical Learning environment (5 items, α=0,77).
Conclusions: the items of the instrument confirm the representativeness of the domains to be evaluated, so it has high evidence of validity and reliability in the four factors identified. This instrument will allow the clinical teacher to have feedback, on their performance by the students for improvement.