Implementation of a Problem-Based Presentation Format to Improve Residents' Ambulatory Patient Presentations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The format for residents to present hospitalized patients to teaching faculty is well defined; however, guidance for presenting in clinic is not uniform.

Objective

We report the development, implementation, and evaluation of a new standardized format for presenting in clinic: the Problem-Based Presentation (PBP).

Methods

After a needs assessment, we implemented the format at the teaching clinics of our internal medicine residency program. We surveyed participants on innovation outcomes, feasibility, and acceptability (pre-post design; 2019-2020; 5-point scale). Residents' primary outcomes were confidence in presentation content and presentation order, presentation efficiency, and presentation organization. Faculty were asked about the primary outcomes of re

SUBMITTER: Steinhilber SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286930 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature