“…Ultimately, effective feedback helps the learner but, as veterinary medicine is a professional degree, feedback is essential for the benefit of the client/patient and maintenance of the professional image. However, feedback, particularly when not effective, may result in loss of motivation, a negative response, and stress for the learner [2,5,11,40,41,43]. In the absence of effective feedback, impediments in reaching competencies should be expected [5,6,16,18,27,38,39,43,45,46].…”