Medical teacher
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The impact of physician burnout is becoming apparent in the medical community, especially among anesthesiologists and young physicians. Anesthesia residents will experience emotionally charged adverse events during their training. The objective was to determine the prevalence, efficacy and utilization of support structures in place for residents following adverse events in order to develop a best-practices model of resident support. ⋯ These data suggest that a best-practices model of resident support entails establishing a department-based support program, facilitating comfortable meetings with departmental leadership and optimizing M&M conference.
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Peer-assisted learning (PAL) has become increasingly popular over recent years with many medical schools now formally incorporating peer-teaching programs into the curriculum. PAL has a sound evidence base with benefit to both peer-teacher and peer-learner. Aside from in teaching delivery, empowering students to develop education in its broadest sense has been much less extensively documented. ⋯ Medical students can contribute significantly to the design and delivery of the undergraduate medical program above and beyond the simple delivery of peer-assisted "teaching". In particular, they are in a prime position to develop resources and conduct research and evaluation within the program. Their participation in all stages enables them to feel involved in course development and education of their peers and ultimately leads to an increase in student satisfaction.
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Reforms in postgraduate medical education (PGME) exposed a gap between educational theory and clinical practice. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were introduced to assist clinicians in bridging this gap and to create better consonance between the intended and the enacted curriculum. ⋯ Summative judgement is used to entrust a resident step by step in a certain EPA, resulting in an increase of independent practice. However, we argue that the success of EPAs depends on (1) a balance: brief focussed descriptions against the requirements for detail and (2) a precondition: a mature and flexible workplace for learning.
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Although contentious most medical schools interview potential students to assess personal abilities such as communication. ⋯ Data show no differences in post-training assessment measures between students who were interviewed during selection or not. Further research about the quality and retention of communications skills after training is warranted.