Effective Feedback & Narrative Evaluations for Site Directors

Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the Department of Undergraduate Medical Education Curricular Affairs.
 
Speaker: Marilyn Katz, MD, Melissa Held, MD, Kristina Zdanys, MD
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: Virtual-live in Microsoft Teams
Meeting ID: 221 224 205 515 407
Passcode: r7kZ3h2y
 
Enrollment Restrictions: This session is restricted to Clinical Site Directors
 
Session Attendance Code:  DOWBOT
 
Session Description: This session will help Site Directors distinguish formative from summative feedback, understand how expectations evolve across stages of medical training, and use evidence‑based frameworks to deliver timely, specific, behavior‑based feedback. Participants will practice writing clear, competency‑focused narrative evaluations that avoid common pitfalls and support learner growth while remaining honest, fair, and professionally responsible.
 
Session Learning Objectives:  Participants will (be able to):
  1. Distinguish between formative and summative feedback.
  2. Describe how expectations for student performance change across levels of medical training
  3. Apply at least 2 frameworks for giving timely, specific, behavior-based feedback.
  4. Identify common pitfalls in narrative comments and strategies to avoid them.
  5. Write a narrative evaluation that clearly reflects observed behaviors, competencies and readiness for next stage of training.
  6. Provide feedback that supports growth while remaining honest, fair and professionally responsible.
Speaker Disclosure Statement: Marilyn Katz, MD, Melissa Held, MD, Kristina Zdanys, MD in their role as [speakers] for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals to be mitigated.
 
Speaker Off-label Statement: Marilyn Katz, MD, Melissa Held, MD, Kristina Zdanys, MD will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.

Target Audience:  Faculty, staff, and trainees at the UConn Health, School of Medicine.

Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of _ 1 _ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Activity Director & Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Neither the activity director, the activity administrator, nor the planning committee members in their role as planning committee members for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

 

Session date: 
06/03/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
Location: 
UConn Health - Virtual only
Farmington, CT 06030
United States
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  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation
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