Problem: Besides being a medical expert , surgery residents need to meet other competencies including: collaborative, communicator , leader, scholar , professional and health advocate. The surgery programs are very much centered around intense procedural and clinical skills training. The learning environment is very fast paced and stressful. There is paucity of a contextualized educational resources for teaching CanMEDS roles to surgical fields residents.
Solution: Educational technologies can provide additional learning opportunities in a more relaxed environment. Surgery residents should be enabled to prepare themselves at their own pace and incorporate their learning in their clinical encounters more efficiently.
Call for action: Let’s build an online course to teach intrinsic CanMEDS roles and customize it for surgery residents.
References:
Hassan, I. S., Kuriry, H., Ansari, L. A., Al-Khathami, A., Qahtani, M. A., Anazi, T. A., . . . Al-Jahdali, H. (2015). Competency-structured case discussion in the morning meeting: Enhancing CanMEDS integration in daily practice. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 6(default), 353-358. doi:10.2147/AMEP.S79521
Jippes, E., van Engelen, J. M. L, Brand, P. L. P., & Oudkerk, M. (2010). Competency-based (CanMEDS) residency training programme in radiology: Systematic design procedure, curriculum and success factors. European Radiology, 20(4), 967-977. doi:10.1007/s00330-009-1623-z
Momoli, F., Balaa, F., Found, D., Arnaout, A., Glen, P., & Martin, L. (2016). The web-based CanMEDS resident learning portfolio project. Canadian Journal of Surgery, 59(6), 425.
Renting, N., Raat, A. N. J., Dornan, T., Wenger‐Trayner, E., Wal, M. A., Borleffs, J. C. C., . . . Jaarsma, A. D. C. (2017). Integrated and implicit: How residents learn CanMEDS roles by participating in practice. Medical Education, 51(9), 942-952. doi:10.1111/medu.13335
Stutsky, B. J., Singer, M., & Renaud, R. (2012). Determining the weighting and relative importance of CanMEDS roles and competencies. BMC Research Notes, 5(1), 354. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-354
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Hi Zahra. Your idea is very innovative and practical. I completely agree that CanMEDS roles are crucial for every physician, but due to the time constrain and heavy daily workload, physicians are difficult to get the learning started. I believe that an online course can provide great flexibility, so that busy physicians can learn about CanMEDS at any time and any place they want. For suggestion, I think your elevator pitch can give some more details about what contents will the online course cover. And here is a youtube video about how to create awesome elevator pitch, hope them are helpful to you!
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Hi Zahra. I agree with Faifai, your idea is very innovative and practical, but for the elevator pitch, I consider it would be better if the solution part can be illustrated in much more detail.
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