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- Title
12 Highly Interactive Teaching: A “HIT” with Residents.
- Authors
Regan, Linda
- Abstract
Covering the core content of emergency medicine during residency training is both a time consuming and challenging endeavor. One of the more significant challenges in graduate medical education is to develop more interactive, less didactic teaching modalities. In an attempt to develop a more interactive educational curriculum, we interspersed weekly sessions titled “Highly Interactive Teaching” (HIT) with standard formal lecture didactics. A primary focus of many educators in emergency medicine is teaching residents how to manage the undifferentiated patient. To this end, we revised our curriculum to include 34 four-hour symptom/chief complaint-based sessions. The first hour is an introductory lecture on the general approach to a patient with the specified complaint. Residents then divide into small groups which rotate through specific case-based sections covering varied diagnoses which might present with the symptom complaint. These faculty-run small groups use a case-based approach, either high or low simulation-based or oral boards-based format. Each faculty then is required to sum up the salient points of their section. The final hour of the day is an evidenced-based review of supporting literature. Residents are required to read and critique selected articles for the audience so that the basis for diagnosis and management decisions can be discussed as a large group discussion. We believe this change in format will help residents not only to become more active learners, but also to become more astute clinicians.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medicine; RESIDENTS (Medicine); OCCUPATIONAL training; GRADUATE education; MEDICAL education
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2008, Vol 15, pS229
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00131_12.x