Cowfer, Brittany McGrath, Caitlin Trowbridge, Amy
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Introduction Despite growing recognition of pediatric palliative care's importance, training in palliative care communication remains a gap in medical education. Graduating medical students frequently feel unprepared to initiate or facilitate goals of care conversations with their patients, particularly in pediatrics. Methods We created a 3-hour se...
Palanisamy, Divya Xiong, Wei
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Introduction Students are taught the basics of medical ethics during their pre-clinical education, but need additional instruction on how to apply these principles to patient situations they may encounter during their clinical rotations. The ethical principles of autonomy and justice become especially pertinent to patient care in the setting of dis...
Dutra, Barbara Lissauer, Matthew Rashid, Hanin
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Introduction Nutrition plays a key role in the prevention and treatment of disease. Hospitalized patients are often malnourished, which is a major contributor to medical complications, decreased quality of life, lengthened medical stay, increased health care costs, and mortality. However, medical students continue to have inadequate education in nu...
Storey, Armide White, Katharine Treder, Kelly Woodhams, Elisabeth Bell, Shannon Cannon, Rachel
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Introduction Serious complications associated with first-trimester abortions are rare. The US mortality rate for these procedures is 0.7 per 100,000, primarily due to infection and hemorrhage. While complications are unlikely to arise during training, residents must be prepared to manage them in practice. To address this, we developed a 2-hour simu...
Skelly, Kelly Kim, Parang Rosenbaum, Marcy Wilbur, Jason
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Introduction Faculty and residents strive for appropriate autonomy and entrustment. Initial direct supervision of clinical care gradually shifts to increasing levels of resident independence over time. Faculty members are inconsistent in resident supervision leading to missed opportunities for resident independence. Methods Family medicine faculty ...
Oddiri, Uchechi Chong, Grace
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Introduction Consistent medical knowledge acquisition while caring for the critically ill can be challenging for learners and educators in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), a unit often distinguished by fluctuating acuity and severity. We implemented a standardized didactic curriculum for PICU residents to facilitate their acquisition and r...
Chokshi, Binny Chen, Kuan-Lung Daniel Beers, Lee
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Introduction Training health professionals for the skills and capacity to respond adequately to children and adults who have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences is recognized as an essential need in health care. Accessible opportunities to educate physicians and physician-trainees are limited. Methods Four computer-based e-modules were cr...
Block, Lauren Petersen, Christopher Coletti, Daniel J. Yalakkishettar, Pratiksha LaVine, Nancy
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Introduction As more practices move to patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models, future health care professionals must train to work in collaborative settings. We implemented a 3-hour workshop for multidisciplinary trainees on the PCMH principles of access and continuity based on the EFECT framework (eliciting a patient-centered narrative, facil...
Díaz, Débora H. Silva Garcia, Glenn Clare, Camille Su, Julia Friedman, Erica Williams, Renee Vazquez, Juan Sánchez, John Paul
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Introduction Hispanics are the largest minority group in the US at 18% of the population, of which Puerto Ricans are the second largest subgroup. Puerto Ricans have poorer health status than other US Hispanic and non-Hispanic populations. Thus, health care providers need to know about and distinguish the health care problems of Puerto Ricans to imp...
Kurtz, Josh Holman, Beth Monrad, Seetha U.
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Introduction Multiple-choice question (MCQ) creation is an infrequently used active-learning strategy. Previous studies demonstrated that medical students find value in the process, but have minimal training, which may limit potential learning benefits. We therefore developed a process for question-creation that required students to complete in-dep...
