By MedicForest · Reviewed
Understand the topic
Useful feedback describes a behaviour and its effect. It should help someone understand what to continue or change. Receiving feedback well includes asking questions and evaluating it fairly; you do not have to pretend that criticism is always easy.
How to discuss it in Med interview
When giving feedback, choose an appropriate time, ask permission where sensible, give a concrete example and invite the person's view. Agree an achievable next step. When receiving it, listen, clarify the concern, reflect and make a plan. Describe how you checked whether the change improved your work.
Put it into words
Your explanation covered the main points, but we lost the link between the second and third steps. Could we add a short signpost there and try it again? The focus is a changeable behaviour.
Common pitfalls
Personal labels, vague praise followed by vague criticism, or saying you improved without any example of what changed.