What would you like to ask your audience? Enhancing feedback value in PM&R grand rounds through customizable evaluation forms with presenter-generated questions

Background Feedback and evaluation are important in the professional development of academic physiatrists. Yet, physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM & R) learners giving academic presentations receive limited narrative feedback through generic evaluation forms.Objective To assess whether customizable evaluation forms that integrate a presenter's specific questions would be associated with an increase in quantity and quality of narrative feedback received from the audience.Design Separate samples pre-post intervention study.Setting A large academic PM & R department's grand rounds.Participants PM & R faculty and trainees attending grand rounds (10-50 attendees with one presenter per session). The study included 20 presentations pre intervention (across 1 year) and 38 presentations post intervention (across about 3 years).Intervention A customizable evaluation form that integrates a presenter's own questions into a tailored evaluation form comprising both standardized and presenter-built questions.Main Outcome Measure(s) Narrative feedback quantity was defined as the mean percentage and number of evaluation forms per presentation with at least one comment. Narrative feedback quality included three metrics: mean percentage and number of evaluation forms per presentation with comments that (1) contained & GE;8 words, (2) referenced something specific, and (3) offered an actionable suggestion.Results Compared to preintervention, presentations in the postintervention period had a greater mean percentage of evaluation forms containing at least one comment (pre = 33.4%, post =74.7%, p < .001), a comment that contained & GE;8 words (pre = 20.2%, post = 44.2%, p < .001), a comment that referenced something specific (pre = 19.6%, post = 55.1%, p < .001), and a comment that offered an actionable suggestion (pre = 10.2%, post = 22.2%, p < .001).Conclusions Use of a customizable evaluation form in PM & R grand rounds that integrates a presenter's own questions was associated with a greater mean percentage of evaluation forms containing comments as well as comments meeting quality metrics related to length, specificity, and actionability.