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Elevator Pitch

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

Elevator Pitch(the final)

Intrinsic CanMEDS roles which includes collaborator, communicator, leader, scholar, professional and health advocate are an inevitable competency for surgery residents. The fast paced and stressful environment in surgical fields makes this training difficult. With an online course residents can prepare themselves at their convenience to use the clinical encounters more efficiently for practicing these roles.

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The evolution of mY educational dilemma

Based on the invaluable feedback from my peers and instructors I have evolved my educational dilemma.

My online course should:

Fill the knowledge gap of residents regarding the intrinsic CanMEDS roles
Fill the skill gap by
Provide opportunities for interaction between residents
Provide opportunities to practice some of roles
Provide Reflection opportunities

Proposed strategies:

Required readings for each module: content of Royall College of physicians and surgeons website could be used as source
Asynchronous discussions on scenarios common to surgical fields such as:
- Communication with patients and families in emergency surgery situations
- Explanation of surgical complications to the patients
- Shared decision making in surgery cases
- Handling conflict during operation with OR team
- Leading surgery team
Group assignments: health advocating projects to practice health advocacy and collaboration skills.
E-portfolio to reflect on the clinical encounters and the instructor can follow the progress of learners during the course.
Final paper on one of one of the roles (the purpose of this task is to practice scholar role)

References

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.

About me…

Hi!

I am an internationally trained orthopedic surgeon and a current student at U of T. As part of my required activities for the course of educational technology, I am making a blog in which I am posting an educational dilemma and by reflecting on the feedback from my peers I am going to evolve that and propose a solution.

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Your are welcome to share your thoughts with me.