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CORD Academic Assembly 2012 This Just In… Breaking News in Medical Education 2011 Sorabh Khandelwal, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine The Ohio State University Michelle Lin, MD Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital
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Objectives • 1. Review and discuss the most current education literature pertaining to both GME and UGME. • 2. Demonstrate the different ways to design education research.
Acad Med 2011; 86(4): 435-9. 2020 Vision of Faculty Development Across the Medical Education Continuum Conference
Schools must completely rethink and restructure the way they deliver educational content
Need to try and predict future opportunities to improve medical education
We face two important tasks 1. Adapt to change early enough to influence outcomes 2. To harness change to enhance education
Trend 1: The explosion of new information Formal knowledge of health care professionals loses its relevance over time
Trend 2: The digitization of all information Will the “next” generation of computer users be able to access any information at any time and any place? The Innovator’s Dilemma – disruptive innovations
Trend 3: New generation of learners Educators Digital Immigrants Traditionalists Digital Settlers Digital Natives • What type of learners will these ‘digital natives’ be? • What changes will they precipitate in the way education is structured? • How will medical educators deal with these students’ growing expectations to integrate new technologies in the curriculum?
Trend 4: The emergence of new instructional technologies “Anyone can now learn anything from anyone at anytime” “… to transform learning into a more collaborative, personalized and empowering experience that can inspire a new generation of learners”
Questions and Recommendations What technology skills do academic healthcare professionals need to know to meet the needs of current students and those they will educate in the future? How will academic healthcare professionals learn these technology skills? How can sustained support be provided to faculty so that they continue to learn?
1. Use technology to support learning Faculty should use technology to provide and support experiences for learners that are not otherwise possible – NOT as a replacement for face to face experiences but as a supplement to them. The question, then, is not whether we should use technology to support education, but when and how how to use employ these technologies
2. Focus on fundamentals Because technologies evolve rapidly, faculty should focus on fundamental principles of teaching and learning rather than specific technologies in isolation
3. Allocate a variety of resources Medical schools should allocate a variety of resources to support the appropriate use of instructional technologies
4. Support and recognize faculty as they adopt new technologies Medical schools should support faculty members as they adopt new technologies
5. Foster collaboration National organizations should provide funding and leadership to enhance a national/global infrastructure to foster collaboration to develop and share resources as well as discuss instructional ideas in medical education HEAL MedEdPortal BioMedExperts
We must embrace, adapt to, and harness technology in order to meet the needs of present and future health professionals
About the Author Bernard R. Robin, PhD Faculty Member at the University of Houston College of Education. Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Instructional Technology Program Area Director of the University of Houston’s Master’s of Teaching Program with an Emphasis in the Health Sciences
A 25 year old in 2020 Was born into the digital world Used a computer before starting kindergarten Will use words not yet created Will use technology no one has predicted
Good Uses and Negative Uses Accept the fact that there will be false starts Plenty of room for research
Med Educ. 2011; 45: 818–26. 2007 AAMC Institute for Improving Medical Education report on Effective Use of Educational Technology in Medical Education Dual Channel, or Cognitive, Theory of Multimedia Learning
Cognitive load theory AUDITORY VISUAL Verbal model Pictorial model
Cognitive load theory AUDITORY VISUAL Verbal model Pictorial model Cognitive representation of working memory Prior knowledge from long term memory
Avoid “Death by Powerpoint” pitfalls Apply multimedia learning principles: Sentence as slide header Avoid bullet points Coherence principle Signaling principle Modality principle Multimedia principle Meaningful learning Knowledge transfer Knowledge retention
Does instruction that applies the principles of multimedia learning result in higher scores by MS3 surgery students? Prospective, pre-post test design Intervention: Shock lecture using new PPT slides 10-question test (open-ended questions) 5 on knowledge retention 5 on knowledge transfer
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What did the new slides look like? Less is more. Before After
What was the study design? Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Pilot students (n=50) PRETEST New Traditional slides slides (n=91) (n=39) POSTTEST
Students scored higher with the new slides Baseline knowledge of students Same Lecturer speaking style Same Improved knowledge retention with new slides (p=0.0016) No change in knowledge transfer with new slides (p=0.278)
Dr. Nabil Issa Assistant Professor in Surgery and Critical Care, Northwestern University School of Medicine After giving a lecture to the MS3's, several students came to me and said that they loved my interactive presentation but thought that my slides where bad and distracting. They basically used the word "suck" to describe my lecture slides!
Dr. Nabil Issa Assistant Professor in Surgery and Critical Care, Northwestern University School of Medicine “Dr. Deb DaRosa (vice chair of education and a renowned surgical educator) told me to search PubMed for the term "multimedia” for tips. Richard Mayers name kept popping up including the 2007 AAMC report that endorsed his work.
Dr. Nabil Issa Assistant Professor in Surgery and Critical Care, Northwestern University School of Medicine The main difficulties during the redesign process: 1. Using modality principle (graphs instead of bullet points) for complex stuff e.g. DOI2 vs. VOI2 vs. O2 extraction. I was nervous that student's would not get what I said and would ask for more text per slide. 2. The lecturer needs to spend MUCH more time on creating slides. Set clear goals. 3. We struggled as a group whether to consider bullet-points as taboo.
Dr. Nabil Issa Assistant Professor in Surgery and Critical Care, Northwestern University School of Medicine Upcoming: We just completed a follow up study of medical students, examining the long term retention effects (1 and 4 weeks out) after redesigning slides based on multimedia principles. I’m developing a workshop to teach faculty and residents how to design better presentations. My intention is to create faculty development programs at our institution and at national meetings.
Communication Skills Stamina Attitude Coolness under pressure Motivation Knowledge Procedural Skills Bedside Manner Team Player Temperament Decision Making
Communication Skills Stamina Attitude Coolness under pressure Motivation Knowledge Procedural Skills Bedside Manner Team Player Temperament Decision Making
Diagnostic Failure Missed diagnosis Delayed diagnosis Wrong diagnosis
Benchmark Studies and Diagnostic Error Diagnostic error ranked #2-5 Up to 14% of all adverse events Principal disciplines: Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Family Practice 75-95% preventability Serious disability in up to ~ 50%
It would be good if physicians were as well acquainted with the relevant principles of cognitive psychology as they are with comparable principles in pathophysiology
Intuition RECOGNIZED Pattern Recognition T Patient Presentation Pattern Processor Executive override Dysrationalia override Calibration Diagnosis Repetition Analytical NOT RECOGNIZED