Internal medicine residents are adult learners who learn best when educational content is relevant and can be incorporated into their daily practice. The ubiquitous utilization of electronic medical records (EMR) allows for innovative approaches both for content delivery and reinforcement of learning over time.
In this webinar, presenters will share an approach to incorporating educational content using “dot phrases” in an EMR to promote ambulatory medicine knowledge acquisition and retention over time. This approach simplifies complex ambulatory clinical challenges into manageable accessed at the point-of-care. Learners revisit educational objectives through spaced repetition when using these dot phrases during clinic sessions. Presenters will briefly review the science supporting the benefits of spaced repetition, interleaving, and active learning in clinical teaching. Presenters will describe content elements that can be incorporated into dot phrases for educational purposes including essential background details, diagnostic tools, algorithms, and frameworks. Guided case examples will engage in stepwise stages of concept application.
Participants will be prompted to choose appropriate clinical topics, then design paired dot phrases to complement an educational session. Presenters will introduce tools to put in dot phrases such as dropdown lists of choices, links for risk calculators, websites with relevant information, and process instructions that disappear when signing a clinical note. Implementation tips will be shared including how to measure dot phrase utilization and integrate default buttons to provide learners easy access to instructional dot phrases at the point-of-care. This approach has potential downstream benefits on trainee efficiency and documentation completeness while facilitating learning.
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