Video-assisted self-reflection of resuscitations for resident education and improvement of leadership skills: A pilot study
DiscussionVideo-assisted self-reflection showed positive gain score trends in leadership evaluation for residents during a resuscitation compared with the non-video assisted control group. This tool would be beneficial to implement in EM residency. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - November 16, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
The application of the tracer method with peer observation and formative feedback for professional development in clinical practice: a scoping review
DiscussionAlthough the body of evidence is small and largely limited to the hospital setting, using the tracer method for peer observation and formative feedback between healthcare professionals of equal status appears sufficiently useful to merit further rigorous evaluation and implementation in continuous professional development in healthcare. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - November 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Rethinking implementation science for health professions education: A manifesto for change
AbstractImplementation science approaches the challenges of translating evidence into practice as a matter of scientific inquiry. This conceptual paper uses an implementation science lens to examine the ways in which evidence from health professions education research is brought to bear on decision-making. The authors describe different decision-making contexts and the kinds of evidence they con sider, and from this, they outline ways in which research findings might be better presented to support their translation into policy and practice. Reflecting on the nature of decision-making in health professions education and h...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - November 10, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Caring from behind the face mask in healthcare: Learning from the dramatic arts
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has made its impact across the globe with great voracity. New routines have displaced older more established ones with ruthless efficiency —no more so than in healthcare. In meeting these challenges, many healthcare workers have had to prepare for and enact many new ways of working. Regardless of their speciality or stage of training, health professions educators (HPEs) have helped train our healthcare workforce in developing new ski lls with great tempo. Throughout all of these efforts one constant has guided our endeavours—the humane connection with those thatprovide and those thatseekhe...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - November 4, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
When English clashes with other languages: Insights and cautions from the Writer ’s Craft series
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Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - November 3, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
‘It’s going to change the way we train’: Qualitative evaluation of a transformative faculty development workshop
DiscussionAspects of FD that prompted HPs to adopt effective teaching and learning practices included initiatives that catalyzed critical discourse and reflection. Readiness for TL is promoted when HPs have a strong educator identity because of workplace educator CoPs. Future research could explore effecting sustainable post-workshop behavioral change in HPs through the strengthening of workplace educator CoPs. To do this, institutions could send co-located HPs from different disciplines to the same FD program. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - October 25, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Barriers to cross-disciplinary knowledge flow: The case of medical education research
DiscussionUsing Pierre Bourdieu ’s concepts of doxa and field, it is argued that the variety of epistemic cultures entering the higher education research space contributes to its interdisciplinary nature. Conversely, the existence of a relatively homogeneous epistemic culture in medicine potentially impedes cross-disciplinary k nowledge exchange. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - October 14, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
The contribution of simulated patients to meaningful student learning
This study focuses on the SP’s role during meaningful learning of the student by giving an in-depth understanding of the c ontribution of the SP from a student perspective.MethodsFifteen bachelor Technical Medicine students were interviewed. Technical medicine students become technical physicians who optimize individual patient care through the use of personalized technology. Their perceptions of meaningful learning experiences during SP-student encounters were explored through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsThree main themes were identified that described what students...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - October 12, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Theory in quality improvement and patient safety education: A scoping review
DiscussionTheory can guide decisions regarding quality improvement and patient safety education practices or play a role in selecting a methodology or lens through which to study educational processes and outcomes. Educators and researchers should make deliberate choices around the use of theory that relates to aspects of an educational program that they seek to illuminate. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - October 5, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Engagement and learning in an electronic spaced repetition curriculum companion for a paediatrics academic half-day curriculum
AbstractPostgraduate residencies utilize academic half-days to supplement clinical learning. Spaced repetition reinforces taught content to improve retention. We leveraged spaced repetition in a curriculum companion for a paediatric residency program’s half-day. One half-day lecture was chosen weekly for reinforcement (day 0). Participants received 3 key points on day 1 and a multiple-choice question (MCQ) on day 8. On day 29, they received two MCQs to test reinforced and unreinf orced content from the same day 0. Thirty-one (79%) residents participated over 17 weeks, but only 14 (36%) completed more than half...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - September 13, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
“As an ethnic minority, you just have to work twice as hard.” Experiences and motivation of ethnic minority students in medical education
DiscussionEthnic minority students generally do not have a prior medical network and need role models to whom they can relate. Ensuring or even appointing more ethnic minority role models throughout the medical educational continuum—for example, specialists from ethnic minorities in teaching and/or mentoring roles in the education—and making them more visible to students is recommended. Moreover, a culture needs to be created in the educational environment in which students and staff can discuss their ethnicity-related differences. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - September 13, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Advancing the science of health professions education through a shared understanding of terminology: a content analysis of terms for “faculty”
This study explores the variety of terms used by researchers and educators to describe “faculty”, with the aim to facilitate definitional clarity, and create a shared terminology and approach to describing thi s term.MethodsThe authors analyzed journal article abstracts to identify the specific words and phrases used to describe individuals or groups of people referred to as faculty. To identify abstracts, PubMed articles indexed with the Medical Subject Heading “faculty” published between 2007 and 2017 were retrieved. Authors iteratively extracted data and used content analysis to identify patterns and themes.Res...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - September 10, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Warnings in early narrative assessment that might predict performance in residency: signal from an internal medicine residency program
DiscussionClinical competency committees (CCCs) usually rely on accumulated data and trends. Using the themes in this paper while reviewing narrative comments may help CCCs with earlier recognition and better allocation of resources to support residents ’ development. (Source: Perspectives on Medical Education)
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - September 2, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn: poetic inquiry within health professions education
AbstractQualitative inquiry is increasingly popular in health professions education, and there has been a move to solidify processes of analysis to demystify the practice and increase rigour. Whilst important, being bound too heavily by methodological processes potentially represses the imaginative creativity of qualitative expression and interpretation—traditional cornerstones of the approach. Rigi d adherence to analytic steps risks leaving no time or space for moments of ‘wonder’ or emotional responses which facilitate rich engagement. Poetic inquiry, defined as research which uses poetry ‘as, in, [or] for inq...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - September 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
Excellence in medical training: developing talent —not sorting it
AbstractMany medical schools have reconsidered or eliminated clerkship grades and honor society memberships. National testing organizations announced plans to eliminate numerical scoring for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 in favor of pass/fail results. These changes have led some faculty to wonder: “How will we recognize and reward excellence?” Excellence in undergraduate medical education has long been defined by high grades, top test scores, honor society memberships, and publication records. However, this model of learner excellence is misaligned with how students learn or what society valu...
Source: Perspectives on Medical Education - August 20, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research
