Study 2: Students and Clinical Teachers’ Experiences About Productive Feedback Practices in the Clinical Workplace from a Sociocultural Perspective

Employing a sociocultural perspective through thematic analysis, the study examined feedback practices across the three layers of feedback. The analysis yielded different elements along the three layers that enable productive feedback practices in the clinical workplace: (1) Feedback encounter layer: dyad relationships, mutual trust, continuity of supervision, and dialogue.; (2) Feedback design layer: enabled learning opportunities and feedback scaffolding; (3) Knowledge domain layer in the clinical culture: Growing clinical experience and accountability.

In the context of undergraduate clinical education, productive feedback practices are shaped by social-cultural factors. Designing feedback practices should consciously integrate these components, such as cultivating relationships, fostering guidance, enhancing feedback agency, and enabling supervised autonomy to promote productive feedback. The attached files are the code list used for the thematic analysis and the full qualitative results report.