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Faculty development tips and ideas
This month’s issue of RPA features a lengthy story on how to build a faculty development program from scratch. Of course, you can’t write a story on faculty development without talking about what topics to cover and how to actually get faculty members to attend the sessions. Here are a few tips I picked up from my sources.
Faculty members are often too busy with their patient care responsibilities to attend educational session, so you must schedule around them. Try scheduling early morning, lunch time, or dinner time sessions when they typically do not see patients.
Also plan sessions before or after other important meetings faculty members have to attend. For example, if they attend a monthly division meeting from 8am-10am, then schedule a faculty development workshop at 10:30am while they’re already out of the patient care mode.
When it comes to selecting topics, the trick is to pick subjects that lend themselves to interactive exercises. Nobody wants to sit through an hour-long lecture. Use case studies, roll play, panel discussions, small group exercises to tackle some of the following topics:
- Evaluating learners/how to fill out an evaluation form accurately
- Managing the problem learner
- Incorporating the ACGME competencies in your teaching
- Evidence-based medicine for the busy clinician
Highlighting that the program appreciates faculty members’ teaching efforts is also important. Consider writing a quarterly newsletter focusing on the program’s educational efforts. In the newsletter, recognize a faculty educator and his or her teaching efforts.
You can also include helpful information for the faculty, such as journal articles on teaching methods, new rotations, days that residents will be out because of Board exams, and new educational initiatives.
What does your program do to promote faculty development? What topics are some of your most popular? Leave a comment in the box below.
Residency program quarterly report template
A few weeks ago, Molly Ostrowski, surgery coordinator, won free registration for the 4th Annual Residency Program Management Workshop. Her entry was featured on Residency Manager Blog.
As the post describes, Ostrowski began compiling quarterly reports that give a snapshot of how the program is complying with ACGME requirements. I interviewed Ostrowski and her program director, Dane Smith, MD for an RPA article and got even more great information about the reports, how she puts them together, and how Smith and Ostrowski hope to use them as documentation of program improvements for an upcoming site visit.
Because so many blog readers asked for a sample report, I uploaded a template for the quarterly report. I hope you find it helpful. Download it from our Forms and Documents page.
Thanks for sharing, Molly!
ACGME unviels new Learning Portfolio information
This week, the ACGME updated the Learning Portfolio section of their Web site to include a new demo of the online system and the latest time line for completion.
As Ruth Nawtoniak, C-TAGME will discuss at the 4th Annual Residency Program Management Seminar, coordinators and directors should check out this page frequently for the most current information about the ACGME’s portfolio initiative.
Training modules for computer systems prepare residents for patient care
Congratulations to Anne O’Hearn C-TAGME from Albert Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia, PA. She won free registration to the 4th Annual Residency Program Management Workshop!
The following describes how e-learning modules have shortened her resident orientation and better prepares trainees for their first day of patient care duties.
Quarterly core competency reports keep programs on track
Congratulations to Molly Ostrowski, surgery coordinator at Greenville Hospital System, in Greenville, SC. She won free registration to the 4th Annual Residency Program Management Workshop!
The following describe a quarterly report Molly puts together that measures how well the program is doing at meeting the six core competencies.
Don’t skip electronic professionalism lessons for trainees
Sometimes all it takes is a small action by a resident to spark an idea for a new lecture series or other learning activity.
Nancy Spector, MD, pediatric associate program director at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia launched an e-professionalism lecture series after she was CC’d on an e-mail from a resident to all other trainees that included a reminder to censor their replies because Dr. Spector would receive them as well.
Do conflict of interest policies hurt GME and medicine?
Chances are, your program’s budget has felt the effects of the economic downturn. But according to many of the coordinators I’ve spoken to, there’s another factor causing funding woes: Policies that limit or disallow GME programs from accepting money from Pharma and other industry sources.
Teach key aspects of systems-based practice with this workshop model
Congratulations to Cynthia Pineda, MD FFAPM&R, associate program director for the physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC. She has won free entry to 4th Annual Residency Program Management Workshop, which will be held October 22-23 in Atlanta, GA. Click here to find out how to win free entry.
For many physicians and educators, systems-based practice (SBP) is one of the more complex and challenging ACGME competencies to teach and assess.
Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR) is a field that emphasizes interdisciplinary care in a team-oriented approach with the aim of providing quality comprehensive care that is unique to each individual patient. Physiatrists are involved in every segment of the healthcare delivery system on a daily basis while providing a continuum of care to patients, while effectively using available resources and maximizing functional outcomes. In our program, residents learn about SBP in a one-day collaborative pilot workshop entitled “The Alpha-numeric Soup: A Systems-based Practice Workshop for the PMR Resident.”
Topics covered during the workshop include:
• Understanding Acronyms Used in Healthcare
• Billing and Coding 101
• The Therapeutic Recreation Program: Volunteering in Community Activities
• Understanding Reimbursement Systems and Documentation in Rehabilitation
• How to Build and Run a Private Practice in PMR
• Understanding Information Systems
Multiple methods of instruction were employed to promote participant interaction such as case-based presentations, videos, hands-on-exercises on billing and coding and the use of the audience response system. A multi-disciplinary team composed of physiatrists, nurses, quality improvement staff, referrals and care management staff, a recreation therapist, a clinical documentation specialist, a systems coordinator and administrators facilitated the educational exercise. Post-survey workshop evaluations were favorable.
Future steps include developing our SBP curriculum and build an evaluation tool that will help assess knowledge translation to best practice. This workshop provides an innovative opportunity for residents to increase their awareness of the healthcare system and relate with an interdisciplinary team of rehabilitation and allied health professionals, which is the heart of both SBP and PMR.
Plan a program leadership retreat
We’re all off and running! The new chiefs have started, new trainees have started, and schedules are generally stable. Recruitment is on the horizon, but it feels suddenly, albeit briefly, like a little bit of a reprieve.
Get coordinators involved in internal reviews
While working on our book, Internal Review Made Simple, I learned that examining program documentation is one of the most arduous tasks undertaken during internal reviews. I brought that up recently during a conversation with a GME leader, who was describing how she recently revised her institution’s internal review process.
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