Multi Source Feedback(MSF)

Instruction for Trainees

As a MD trainee, you should receive multisource feedback (MSF) at least twice (Once during Pre-MD period and once during the local Post-MD period) during your training unless otherwise deemed necessary by the relevant Board of Study.

These two multisource feedback assessments are essential components of the portfolio submitted for PBCA

Please follow the below instructions when completing MSF.

• Prior to obtaining MSF, you must read the multisource feedback guidelines of the PGIM available in the below link.

Multisource feedback guidelines – Click here

• You must first compile a list of feedback givers in consultation with your trainer and submit the feedback givers list online using the link below.

Form for submitting the feedback givers list – Click here

• Please use this form to submit 15 nominees as per the guidelines to provide you with feedback. This will allow you to receive feedback from at least 12 feedback givers.
• You should select the nominees (feedback givers) in consultation with your trainer and with his or her agreement.
• Please ensure that all categories of staff are included in the nominees list (Eg: Consultants, Senior Registrars, Registrars, SHO’s, Nursing officers, Medical Students, Pupil Nurses, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Labour Room Midwives, Technicians etc. as relevant)
• If a nominee is able to provide you online feedback (e.g. if the nominee has a valid email address and is conversant in the use of a smart device/computer), you should provide his or her email address.
• Please ensure that the email addresses provided are valid and functioning. Additionally, kindly make sure that all email addresses are typed correctly without any spelling errors. Please avoid adding spaces within email addresses and ensure that dots (.) are used correctly instead of commas (,), as incorrect entries may result in the Your MSF form not being received to that feedback providers.
• You should provide this list to the Medical Education Resource Centre (MERC) of the PGIM before the deadline (as designated by the Board of Study) of submitting the MSF. (All trainees at MD level should submit MSF forms at least twice – Once during pre-MD period and once during the post-MD period – during their training unless otherwise deemed necessary by the relevant Board of Study.)

• After submitting the feedback givers list, the PGIM shall send MSF forms to relevant feedback givers online and obtain the feedback on behalf of you. The PGIM will also send you an email containing PDF files of the MSF form.
• PGIM encourages you to obtain feedback online as much as possible. When a feedback giver is unable to submit the feedback online, you may use the MSF form sent to you via email for obtaining a manual feedback.
  • The printed MSF form shall be handed over to the feedback giver along with an envelope.
  • The completed form shall be collected and handed over to the PGIM only by your trainer.
  • You should NOT take possession of the completed MSF forms at any time as it violates the general regulations and guidelines of the PGIM.

Please note that the PGIM shall no longer accept the previously used PTR form or any other form indicated in your prospectus for the purpose of MSF as those have now been invalidated.