The entrustment framework redirects assessment from considering only trainees' competence to decision-making about their readiness to perform clinical tasks independently. Since trainees and supervisors both contribute to entrustment decisions, we examined the cognitive and affective factors that underly their negotiation of trust, and whether…

Evaluation data on Basic Clinical Psychiatry, a four week required clerkship of the University of Pennsylvania, are presented. The results of the evaluation suggest that, in spite of negative attitudes, student ratings of psychiatry courses can be consistent with measures of cognitive growth and sensitive to educational methods and design.…