Self-Assessment
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Introduction
Supervisors should recognize that student and resident self-assessment is inevitably inaccurate.i In their seminal paper “I’ll never play professional football” and other fallacies of self-assessment.ii Eva and Regehr suggest that programs should not attempt to improve the quality of self-assessment (which they regard as impossible) but rather focus instead on self-directed assessment seeking.
Davis DA, Mazmanian PE, Fordis M, Van Harrison R, Thorpe KE, Perrier L: Accuracy of physician self-assessment compared with observed measures of competence: a systematic review. JAMA. 2006;296:1094-1102.
Eva KW, Regehr G: “I’ll never play professional football” and other fallacies of self assessment. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 2008;28(1):14-19.
Resources and References
Dunning-Kruger Effect (wikipedia)
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