DEVELOPMENT AND USABILITY TESTING OF AN ONLINE TOOL FOR INTRAOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SURGICAL RESIDENTS

摘要

Formal intraoperative assessments of surgical residents are often completed with pencil-and-paper forms,leading to a low rate of compliance with residency program guidelines. An online tool was developed forthe evaluation of residents by attending physicians in the OR. Usability testing was conducted using twogroups of users, one expert and the other naïve, using a newly developed variant of rapid iterative testingmethodology called DONE-RITE. The tool was developed and refined over a series of rapid iterationswhere user interface and domain-specific usability issues were addressed by the naïve and expert usergroups, respectively. The end result was the quick development of the online tool, which the expert usersagreed was convenient to use in the OR and was likely to improve compliance with resident assessmentguidelines.