Andrea Berry

Effective feedback is vital for developing learner knowledge, clinical and communication skills. While uncomfortable at times, learners need regular, direct feedback to improve and progress through the curriculum. The Effective Feedback module will introduce practical strategies for providing feedback using didactic and case-based discussion items.

Competency-based curricula require faculty to evaluate both cognitive and non-cognitive components of a learner’s performance. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn some pitfalls to likert-based scales, identify strategies to address such pitfalls and discuss best practices around providing narrative comments on evaluations.

Learners’ skills and behaviors vary based on previous experience and background. In this workshop, participants will discuss a conceptual model for clinical skill development and identify strategies to assess learner aptitude in each of the relevant core competency domains

In this highly interactive workshop, participants build upon discussions from previous sessions, identifying teachable moments and effective interventions to advance student performance in the core competency domains.

Problems exist whenever a learner’s performance does not meet the preceptor’s expectations. In this practical workshop, participants will discuss approaches to address learning problems and design a framework by which they can diagnose the cause.

In this workshop, participants are introduced to several efficient clinical teaching techniques that can be used on a busy service or practice including the one minute preceptor, Stanford model, case presentations at the bedside, and Aunt Minnie model.

The challenge of clinical teaching is to transform novice learners into competent physicians. This transformational process requires faculty to play several roles as they mentor and guide learners. In this workshop, participants will discuss their role in developing a novice learner and identify practical tools to improve the clinical learning environment.