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Study Objective There have been studies assessing OBGYN personality types. However, there is a gap of study assessing attending personality assessment and its effects on residents. The objective of this study is to examine attending self-perception of personality traits, clinical/surgical teaching and provision of feedback and how this compares to resident assessment. Design Online Survey. Setting Anonymous survey. Patients or Participants Current residents and attendings. Interventions There were separate attending and resident surveys. The surveys collected demographic information, personality/clinical/surgical teaching assessment as well as a set of slider questions pertaining to resident/attending perceptions. This set was developed with a clinical psychologist. Each survey linked to a validated personality test. Measurements and Main Results Resident response rate was 65.8%. Attending response rate was 78.6%. A repeated measure model was used to assess the mean difference in scores between residents and attendings. Attendings viewed themselves as more reliable/trustworthy (p=0.01), professional (p=0.04), ethical (p McNemar's test was used to assess the association between subjective and objective measures of attending personality type. 40% of attendings classified themselves as an extrovert but scored as an introvert (p=0.05). There was no difference between classification of type A/B personality types and measurement with the validated personality test. Conclusion Attending perception of personality traits, teaching ability, and provision of feedback correlates positively with resident perception for many of the factors studied. For example, residents perceived attendings as better at surgical teaching than they self-perceived. Assessing these correlations may assist in improving resident/attending communication and feedback.