Medical education online
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Medical education online · Dec 2019
A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017.
Effective mentoring enhances the personal and professional development of mentees and mentors, boosts the reputation of host organizations and improves patient outcomes. Much of this success hinges upon the mentor's ability to nurture personalized mentoring relationships and mentoring environments, provide effective feedback and render timely, responsive, appropriate, and personalized support. However, mentors are often untrained raising concerns about the quality and oversight of mentoring support. ⋯ Braun and Clarke's approach to thematic analysis was adopted to circumnavigate mentoring's and mentor training's evolving, context-specific, goal-sensitive, learner-, tutor- and relationally dependent nature that prevents simple comparisons of mentor training across different settings and mentee and mentor populations. In total, 3585 abstracts were retrieved, 232 full-text articles were reviewed, 68 articles were included and four themes were identified including the structure, content, outcomes and evaluation of mentor training program. The themes identified provide the basis for an evidence-based, practice-guided framework for a longitudinal mentor training program in medicine and identifies the essential topics to be covered in mentor training programs.
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Medical education online · Dec 2019
A simulation procedure curriculum to increase pediatric resident exposure to procedures rarely performed in clinical practice.
Pediatrics residents are expected by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to competently perform 13 procedures. However, residents are graduating with poor self-perceived competency for these procedures. ⋯ A pre-internship procedure workshop coupled with longitudinal workshops is a feasible way to improve intern exposure to pediatric procedural training. However, it was not sufficient to improve mean competency self-assessments compared to a traditional model of bedside procedural training.
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Medical education online · Dec 2019
Randomized Controlled TrialOrderly display of limb lead ECGs raises Chinese intern's diagnostic accuracy when determining frontal plane QRS axis.
There is limited information on whether the orderly display of limb lead ECGs (electrocardiograms) can facilitate students to determine frontal plane QRS complex wave electrical axis. ⋯ Orderly display of limb lead ECGs may raise Chinese intern's diagnostic accuracy when determining frontal plane axis.
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Medical education online · Dec 2019
A Developmental Approach to Internal Medicine Residency Education: Lessons Learned from the Design and Implementation of a Novel Longitudinal Coaching Program.
Resident physicians' achievement of professional competencies requires reflective practice skills and faculty coaching. Graduate medical education programs, however, struggle to operationalize these activities. ⋯ Lessons learned included challenges in coordination of observations, identifying disorienting dilemmas, and creating a shared mental model between residents, faculty, and program leadership. The coaching program resulted in professional learning plans aligned with IM EPAs, in addition to other professional development topics. Operationalization of aspects of these results can inform the development of similar programs in residency education.