Meetings

Teaching Clinical Reasoning to Clerkship Students in the Classroom

Webinar (Open)

Students often find the transition from pre-clinical to clinical learning challenging because it is not always obvious how they should analyze patient presentations in real time. Students first observe and learn clinical reasoning from their teaching residents and faculty in clinical venues. In these clinical settings, learning is often more observational where students seek to emulate systematic frameworks they observe.

Clerkship didactics are also important teaching venues to develop students’ clinical reasoning skills. Didactics offer students the opportunity to discuss and understand systematic frameworks through clinical cases. There are several foundational clinical reasoning frameworks from the literature that can be taught to students. Some examples include problem representation (a synthesized summary highlighting the defining features of a case) and illness scripts (a summary of one’s knowledge about a particular disease). Furthermore, there are clear evidence-based strategies for teaching clinical reasoning effectively in the classroom setting. When students learn clinical reasoning in didactics and apply these skills clinically, they are more likely to be conscious and confident in the different steps of clinical reasoning.

In this session, we will outline these frameworks and teaching strategies, using our two institutions as case studies. We will provide a handout of a guide to clinical reasoning curriculum development for future reference.

 

AIM Webinar Series: Artificial Intelligence

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Presented by:
Natalya Maisel

Six Steps in the Right Direction: Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Medical Education

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Making the Most of the Signal: Best Practices for Fellowship Application Advising

Webinar (Open)

This webinar will focus on best practices for advising fellowship applicants on how to use their signals across the medicine subspecialties. Informed by signaling outcome data from the most recent fellowship interview cycle, this webinar will explore signaling strategies across specialties and applicant scenarios.

Presented by:
Rebecca Berman, MD
Luis Daniel Lugo, MD, MBA
Michael P. Pfeiffer, MD
Usha Perepu, MD

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From Cases to Scholars: Elevating Trainee Education and Faculty Mentorship Through Clinical Case-Bas

Webinar (Open)

Internal medicine offers a unique opportunity to engage with a wide variety of clinical cases and multidisciplinary diagnoses. Despite their ready availability in day-to-day clinical work, the educational value of these cases often goes underrecognized. Faculty and learners often lack structured support to organize cases into clinical vignettes, thus leaving this wealth of data underutilized. This webinar bridges this gap by discussing how building structures to foster clinical vignette development among faculty and learners can facilitate sharing clinical cases, developing diagnostic reasoning, and formulating cost-effective management strategies.  Participants will explore the components of successful case-based scholarship programs integrated from several institutions.

The webinar will introduce attendees to a systematic process to evaluate clinical cases to maximize teaching points, and discuss how to create and maintain structures that can promote optimal learning and encourage scholarly project development. Presenters will share tools that can be implemented in attendee home institutions, such as vignette-writing bootcamps, clinical case repositories, and match-making faculty mentors and learners.

The webinar focuses on professional benefits within academic medicine, such as trainee mentorship and scholarship output, while remaining clinically relevant and attainable. By the end, participants will be equipped with a roadmap, examples of successful program models, and a set of practical tools that they can immediately implement to foster a case-based scholarship program tailored to their specific educational needs.

Presented by:
Michelle Sweet, MD
Shannon K. Martin, MD, FACP, SFHM
Touqir Zahra, MD
Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH

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