Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. 46(6)
The relationship between a resident physician and his/her supervising attending is foundational to graduate medical education and may impact the clinical learning environment and resident well-being. This paper focuses on how to measure connection between a resident and their clinical supervisor. Connection includes the subdomains of psychological safety, empathy, educational alliance, and feedback.After reviewing the literature, the authors designed the 12-item, 7-point Connection Index (CIOut of a total possible number of 50 residents, 100% participated to rate 41 supervisors over 201 supervision dyads; the CIThe authors showed the CI