Coleadership Among Chief Residents: Exploration of Experiences Across Specialties.

Background: Many departments have multiple chief residents. How these coleaders relate to each other could affect their performance, the residency program, and the department.

Objective: This article reports on how co-chiefs work together during the chief year, and what may allow them to be more effective coleaders.

Assessing effective teaching: what medical students value when developing evaluation instruments.

Purpose: To investigate what criteria medical students would value and use in assessing teaching skills.

Method: Fourth-year medical students at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine enrolled in a teaching elective course are required to design and use an evaluation instrument to assess effective teaching. Each class uses a similar process in developing their instruments.

Neurosurgery resident leadership development: an innovative approach.

A great deal of time and resources go into the development and training of neurosurgeons. One area that has minimal literature and assessment is leadership development. Under the core competency of interpersonal and communication skills, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has indicated that residents are expected to work effectively as a member or leader of a healthcare team.