Resident psychiatrists as assessors for lectures in continued medical education in psychiatry.

Objectives: We examined the quality of instruction in a continued medical education course and the correspondence between the residents and lecturers evaluations of the program.

Materials And Methods: Resident psychiatrists and instructors completed structured evaluation forms immediately following each lecture in a psychiatry course for one academic year.

Results: Residents' and lecturers' evaluations of goal achievement, but not general ratings of lecture quality correlated positively.