Managing Stress: Practical Techniques for Everyday Life

1. Clinical Pearl Template

2. Clinical Pearl Defined as: a small bit of free standing, clinically relevant information based on experience or observation.

3. What topic to pick • The information should be practical for the intended audience • The information should be useful in solving clinical problems, especially every day problems

4. Intro/Needs Assessment • Describe the problem/issue and why it is important to discuss today • Avoid long reviews of background literature

5. Planned Learning Assessment • Incorporate active learning exercises in your presentation • A self-assessment question following your presentation allows participants to evaluate their achievement of the objectives • Question should match the stated objective

6. Objective • Have a clearly constructed question, or objective that you intend to answer or meet (no more than 1) • Refer to Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs for writing your objective

7. Abstract/Content • This can include interventions, therapy innovations, structured updates, new drugs to market • Exclude journal reviews, drug class reviews, disease state management, guideline reviews, topic summaries

8. Conclusion • Have a take home point that you want the audience to remember • Anything to help the pearl “stick” is encouraged

9. Literature Review/References • Pearls tend to be anecdotal • Can be based in primary literature, but a review of the literature is unrealistic

10. General Points • Should be 8 minutes in length, and no longer. The allotted time for questions is 2 minutes • Should have an Intro, content, and conclusion • May or may not be based in a patient case • Content should be straightforward, easy to understand and likely to be remembered