Chief's seminar: turning interns into clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent changes in healthcare delivery have necessitated residency education reform. To adapt to these changes, graduate medical education can adopt a chief resident-led clinical curriculum. Chief residents are ideal clinical instructors, as they are recent graduates who have excelled in their residency programs. To effectively use the limited time available for education, chief residents can implement active learning techniques. We present a chief resident-led, small-group, problem-based curriculum for teaching first-year internal medicine residents, and provide preliminary data supporting the efficacy of this approach.

Methods

The seminar consisted of 11 4-week modules. Week 1 was a team-based crossword competition. Weeks 2-4 were small-group, problem-based clini

SUBMITTER: Dittus C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4184299 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature