Abstract:Verbal feedback delivered by attending surgeons in the operating room plays a critical formative role in resident trainee skill acquisition. Yet, assessing the quality of trainer feedback and its effectiveness in influencing trainee behavior during live surgery remains a challenge. Prior studies assessed feedback content relying on extensive manual annotation by expert human raters and focused on developing broad taxonomies that overlook the qualitative aspects of feedback delivery such as clarity or urgency. Limited existing automated methods, including keyword analysis and topic modeling, also fail to capture these nuanced aspects. We introduce a two-stage LLM-based framework that discovers interpretable feedback quality criteria grounded in the context of surgical training. Our method uses multi-agent prompting and surgical domain knowledge injection to discover a small set of human interpretable scoring criteria (e.g., Encouraging, Urgent, Clear). These criteria are then used to automatically score live surgical feedback via an LLM-as-a-judge approach. Evaluation on 4.2k trainer feedback instances demonstrates that our AI-discovered criteria outperform prior content-based frameworks in predicting feedback effectiveness, including observed trainee behavioral adjustments and trainer approval. This work advances scalable, human-aligned assessment of communication quality in the operating room and provides a foundation for improving surgical teaching practices.
| Comments: | 25 pages, 3 figures |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) |
| MSC classes: | 68T50 |
| ACM classes: | I.2.7; J.3; K.3.1 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.25440 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.25440v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.25440 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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