Near-Peer Supervision in Primary Care: Bringing Teaching Teams From the Wards to the Clinic

ABSTRACT:

Background

Teaching near-peers yields numerous benefits to residents. Opportunities for near-peer teaching are typically restricted to hospital settings. Little is known about the educational potential of outpatient near-peer teaching.

Objective

To describe Primary Care Teaching (PC Teach), a novel outpatient near-peer teaching experience for residents in a large, urban, internal medicine residency program; characterize its feasibility and acceptability; and evaluate changes in residents’ self-reported confidence in outpatient teaching and attitudes toward teaching and primary care/outpatient medicine.

Methods

In 2020-2021, following a didactic workshop, 43 postgraduate year 3 (PGY-3) residents at continuity clinics assigned to PC Teach completed a series of half

SUBMITTER: Chen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature