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Table 1 Teaching skills sessions with associated learning objectives and activities

From: Successful implementation of a longitudinal skill-based teaching curriculum for residents

Year One Curriculum (2015–2016)

Teaching Skills Topic

Learning Objectives: as a result of this session, residents will be able to:

Introduction to Resident Teaching Skills Curriculum, Learning Climate and Effective Teachers

• Identify characteristics of exemplary clinical teachers

• Identify strategies to promote an effective learning climate

• Demonstrate teaching behaviors that promote an effective learning climate

Motivating the Learner

• Examine contributing factors that affect a learner’s performance

• Explain one relevant motivational theory that covers extrinsic and intrinsic motivators

• Discuss the importance and impact of a good orientation

• Identify components of an orientation

One-Minute Preceptor

• Describe the five elements of the One-Minute Preceptor model for clinical teaching

• Successfully apply the model to a simulated learner presenting a patient

• Use the model to develop an assessment of the learner’s current level of knowledge/skill and what the learner needs to know

Effective Feedback

• Define feedback and give rationale for providing feedback to learners

• Recognize barriers to giving feedback

• Identify characteristics of effective feedback

• Demonstrate effective feedback via observation and practice

Interactive Teaching/Use of Technology

• List goals of effective lecturing/presentations

• Describe components of effective lecturing/presentation

• Apply specific techniques for making lectures more interactive

Year Two Curriculum (2016–2017)

Teaching Skills Topic

Learning Objectives: as a result of this session, residents will be able to:

Introduction to Teaching Skills, Learning Climate and Effective Teachers

• Identify ways to utilize Carver College of Medicine and clerkship learning objectives for medical students in bedside and small group teaching

• Formulate an orientation checklist for outlining logistics and student expectations on the service

• Recognize leadership and teaching behaviors that create an environment of harassment and learner mistreatment.

Senior Resident Curriculum: Anatomy of an Effective Presentation

• Recognize steps involved in developing an effective presentation

• Understand importance of creating a timeline

• Describe structure of an effective presentation

• Identify tips and tools for an effective presentation

• Design slides using presentation principles

Intern Teaching Primer: Introduction to Teaching Skills

• Appreciate impact of resident teachers on learners

• Identify expectations for resident teachers

• Recognize challenges in clinical teaching

• Demonstrate teaching skills: orientation and feedback

Bedside Teaching Skills

• Recognize advantages of bedside teaching

• Discuss barriers to bedside teaching

• Identify strategies for effectively teaching in the patient’s presence

Teaching Clinical Reasoning

• Recognize level of learner you are working with on rotations

• Develop questions appropriate to level of learner

• Assess learner’s diagnostic reasoning ability

• Practice giving feedback to learner and developing an educational plan

Post-Curriculum Feedback and Survey

• Discuss personal growth as a teacher

• Share teaching experiences and application of teaching skills learned over the course of the year

Year Three Curriculum (2017–2018)

Teaching Skills Topic

Learning Objectives: as a result of this session, residents will be able to:

Introduction to Teaching Skills, Learning Climate and Effective Teachers

• Identify ways to utilize Carver College of Medicine, subinternship and clerkship learning objectives for medical students in bedside and small group teaching.

• Assist learners in setting learning goals for the clerkship.

• Recognize leadership and teaching behaviors that create an environment of harassment and leaner mistreatment.

• Identify people in the department who are resources if they need to report learner mistreatment

Senior Resident Curriculum: Engaging Presentations

• Recognize steps involved in developing an effective presentation

• Understand importance of creating a timeline

• Describe structure of an effective presentation

• Identify tips and tools for an effective presentation

• Integrate tips and tools into personal presentation

Intern Teaching Primer: Introduction to Teaching Skills

• Appreciate the impact of resident teachers on learners

• Identify expectations for resident teachers

• Recognize challenges in clinical teaching

• Demonstrate teaching skills- orientation and feedback

Teaching and Assessing Oral Presentations

• Review basic guidelines of oral presentations, including timing, delivery and emphasis

• Highlight the oral presentation as a form of medical communication

• Differentiate features of oral vs written presentations

• Demonstrate effective acquisition and delivery tips

• Demonstrate how to assess representative oral presentations using a checklist

Teaching and Assessing Clinical Notes

• Learn to critically evaluate a history and physical written by a medical student

• Learn to critically evaluate a progress note written by a medical student

• Practice giving feedback to a medical student on their written notes

Post-curriculum Feedback and Surveys

• Differentiate between feedback and evaluation

• Discuss the cycle of feedback and evaluation

• Describe G.R.A.D.E. strategy for evaluation

• Review the Carver College of Medicine clinical student evaluation form