GME Resident as Educator Program
Overview
The purpose of this one-year curriculum is to support medical residents becoming effective teachers in clinical settings. The program includes ten asynchronous, interactive online modules and written reflection activities. PGY-1 residents in programs associated with the seven core clerkship programs, i.e., Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and General Surgery, are required to complete this program. Of these seven, programs that can demonstrate a robust resident as educator curriculum will be exempt from the mandatory requirement. However, they may elect to utilize any of the online modules as supplementary materials. All other residency and fellowship programs can elect to participate in the program. In addition, individual residents and fellows can enroll in the program with permission from their program director.
Objectives
After completing RAE, residents/fellows will be able to:
- implement effective teaching strategies, e.g., One Minute Preceptor, SNAPPS, SETTUP, etc., in clinical settings;
- implement a game plan that outlines expectations for student performance during learning experiences;
- integrate characteristics of effective feedback and utilize the Ask-Tell-Ask feedback framework when giving feedback to students;
- identify strategies to improve role modeling skills; and
- discuss the importance of creating a psychologically safe learning environment.
Structure
- The program runs from September to June.
- Beginning in September and continuing monthly, residents/fellows complete ten online modules with post-tests and written reflections within Blackboard that focus on specific educational topics.
- Module topics include learning theory, setting learner expectations, feedback, teaching in the outpatient and inpatient settings, teaching medical procedures, questioning, role modeling, and teaching clinical reasoning skills.
Modules
- Teaching Students 101
- Explain the importance of teaching medical students
- Describe what residents should be teaching medical students
- Describe the role of the medical student on the health care team
- Identify characteristics of effective clinical teachers
- Identify teaching strategies to use in the clinical setting
- Learning Theory
- Describe what theory is and how it can inform medical education.
- Describe the principles of each learning theory: behaviorism, cognitive, constructivism, social, and adult.
- Identify learning activities that are grounded in each learning theory.
- Apply learning theory to medical education
- Setting Expectations
- Discuss why setting expectations is important
- Describe what topics should be discussed with students at the beginning of a clerkship rotation
- Develop a game plan that outlines expectations for student performance during clerkships
- Identify characteristics of each level of the RIME Framework
- Giving Effective Feedback
- Discuss why giving feedback is important
- Describe characteristics of and identify effective feedback
- Apply the Ask-Tell-Ask framework for giving feedback
- Teaching in the Outpatient Setting
- Describe your role as an educator in the outpatient setting
- Discuss general strategies to use to teach in the outpatient setting
- Describe three case-based methods to teach in the outpatient setting
- Teaching in the Inpatient Setting
- Discuss your role as an educator in the inpatient setting
- Discuss 10 tips to teaching in the inpatient setting
- Discuss common mistakes of teaching in the inpatient setting
- Describe a Chalk Talk
- Teaching Medical Procedures
- Describe what medical procedures students will be assessed on during clerkships
- Discuss the SETT UP framework for teaching procedures
- Apply the SETT UP framework
- Questioning as a Teaching Tool
- Describe the benefits of asking questions
- Identify effective and ineffective questions
- Use the RIME model and Bloom’s Taxonomy to ask level appropriate questions
- Discuss tips for asking effective questions
- Role Modeling
- Define what a role model is
- Discuss why role modeling is an important teaching strategy
- Describe characteristics of effective role models
- Identify strategies to improve role modeling skills
- Teaching Clinical Reasoning Skills
- Define clinical reasoning skills
- Discuss the importance of psychological safety
- Describe the steps to teach clinical reasoning skills
- Compare and contrast teaching strategies to teach clinical reasoning skills
Recognition
Residents and fellows who successfully complete RAE will receive a certificate of completion and recognition at an annual GME conference. They may optionally receive a Resident as Educator medallion (pictured above).