HSC Education Days
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2-9-2024
Abstract
As medical students transition into residents, there is a simultaneous expectation that they transform from learner to teacher. Residents are actively involved in medical student, junior resident, and patient education. Despite this expectation, very little to no time in medical student or resident didactic is spent on the key concepts of delivering quality learning materials or “learning how to teach”. With this gap in knowledge and skill in mind, residents in the Department of Psychiatry proposed a new didactic series, Residents Teaching Residents. The three-year overarching curriculum was designed to introduce core concepts and skills for effective teaching including learning theory, giving and receiving feedback, active learning techniques in clinical spaces, design and teaching of presentations, and small group facilitation. The second-year class series created for PGY-2 psychiatry residents combines interactive lecture and workshops in a four-class curriculum. Targeted to promote near-peer teaching on the inpatient unit, content focuses on clinical teaching, specifically discussing the learning climate, ways to promote understanding, and elements of good slide driven and chalk talk design. At the culmination of the course, residents used the knowledge gained in the lecture series to prepare their own brief educational presentation to take to their clinical spaces. Learners’ self-assessments reported gain in confidence in designing and delivering brief educational presentations. Qualitative feedback to the course includes favorable experience with group learning, near-peer feedback, and time to create and present learning materials. Here we share the specifics of the design, delivery, and resident feedback regarding this new education curriculum that supports the evolution of learner to teacher.
Recommended Citation
Price, Dominique; Emma Torncello; and Wayles Haynes. "Residents Teaching Residents: Creation of resident didactics to support resident-led education in the clinical space." (2024). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_ed_day/177
