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Lack of association of gender and American board certification with anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision evaluated by anesthesia resident physicians and fellows
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Lack of association of gender and American board certification with anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision evaluated by anesthesia resident physicians and fellows

Franklin Dexter, Rashmi N. Mueller, Kokila N. Thenuwara and Dawn Dillman
Perioperative care and operating room management, Vol.43, 100649
06/2026
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcorm.2026.100649

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Abstract

Anesthesiologists are employees, and gender is a protected class. Therefore, we evaluated the effect of the anesthesiologist’s gender on anesthesia residents’ daily evaluations of the quality of their clinical supervision. Simultaneously, we evaluated the impact of the American Board of Anesthesiologists’ certification on the overall quality of supervision, as evaluated by our anesthesia resident physicians. Evaluations with the de Oliveira Filho et al. supervision scale spanned October 2024 through September 2025 at one residency program. Mixed-effects logistic regression was used to adjust evaluation scores, maximum or not, for raters’ leniency/ severity. Weighted linear regression was performed, with the empirical Bayes predictive posterior mean estimate for each anesthesiologist’s clinical supervision performance as the dependent variable and the inverse of the squared standard errors as the weights. From 3690 evaluations of 132 ratee anesthesiologists by 45 rating resident physicians, neither gender nor ABA board certification was significantly associated with supervision scores. The women had an estimated odds ratio of 0.78 compared to the men (P = 0.70), with a 98.3 % confidence interval of 0.47 to 1.29. Anesthesiologists without ABA certification had an estimated odds ratio of 0.69 (P = 0.15), with a 98.3 % confidence interval of 0.42 to 1.10. There was no interaction (P = 0.99). Two earlier studies from different departments, using different approaches, found no effect of gender on faculty anesthesiologists’ evaluations of anesthesia residents. Our results complement these findings by similarly finding no significant effect on the evaluations of the anesthesiologists by the residents.
 Anesthesiologists/standards Clinical competence/standards Education, medical, graduate/methods Gender identity/statistics & numerical data Models, statistical Personnel management

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