Emergency Medicine Oral Case Presentations: Evaluation of a Novel Curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Oral case presentation (OCP) is recognized as a central educational and patient care activity, yet has not been well studied in the emergency medicine (EM) setting. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a novel curriculum on medical students' EM-OCP skills.

Methods

An EM-OCP assessment tool and novel blended curriculum were developed based on results from a Canadian survey of emergency physicians and focus groups with key stakeholders. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of 96 clerkship students between 2017 and 2018. Students were randomly assigned into an intervention group where they completed a novel EM-OCP curriculum or a control group without the curriculum. A pretest baseline assessment of students' OCP skills was performed using a

SUBMITTER: Wawrykow TMJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592827 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature