Open AccessIntegrating Teaching Skills and Clinical Content in a Faculty Development Workshop
Author(s) -
Green Michael L.,
Gross Cary P.,
Kernan Walter N.,
Wong Jeffrey G.,
Holmboe Eric S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.20933.x
Subject(s) - medicine , faculty development , medical education , ambulatory , clinical practice , primary care , medline , professional development , nursing , family medicine , political science , law
Incorporating clinical content into medical education faculty development programs has been proposed as a strategy to consolidate faculty continuing medical education time and enhance learning. We developed a faculty development program for ambulatory internal medicine preceptors that integrated primary care genetics with ambulatory precepting. The instructional strategies addressed both areas simultaneously and included facilitated discussions, mini‐lectures, trigger tapes, and role plays. To evaluate the program, we conducted a pre‐post trial. Skills were measured by retrospective pre‐post self‐reported ratings and behaviors by self‐reported implementation of commitment to change (CTC) statements. Participants' ( N = 26) ambulatory precepting and primary care genetics skill ratings improved after the intervention. They listed an average of 2.4 clinical teaching CTC statements and 2.0 clinical practice CTC statements. By 3 months after the workshop, preceptors, as a group, fully implemented 32 (38%), partially implemented 35 (41%), and failed to implement 18 (21%) CTC statements. The most common barrier to clinical teaching change was insufficient skills (8 of 25; 32%) and to clinical practice change was lack of a suitable patient (15 of 25; 60%). Integrating clinical content with clinical teaching in a faculty development workshop is feasible, can improve clinical and teaching skills, and can facilitate behavior change.