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Emergency Medicine Cases

Episode 98 Teaching on Shift

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We discuss some quick, easy tips on how you can take your educating skills to the next level, from orienting the learner and establishing expectations at the start of the shift, to key questioning techniques to use in case presentations, to the lost art of active observation, to the One Minute Preceptor model, to giving effective end-of-shift feedback, medicine’s white whale. We end with a surprise appearance by another master educator who gives his top pearls on teaching on shift. This podcast is about how, on your next ED shift, you can make the most of every teachable moment...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Dr. Helman. I'm Mark. I'm an EMR2. We're working again together today, third time this week.

0:06.0

Afternoon, Dr. Helman. I'm a third-year medical student on with you today. It's my first emerge shift ever.

0:12.8

Hi, Dr. Helman. I'm an R5 in EM. We've never worked together, but it looks like today's the day.

0:18.6

Hey, I'm here for a shift.

0:21.7

Sorry, I'm late. Hi, Anton. My name is Hannah. I'm a medicine resident on with you today. Hey, Anton. I'm Carl. I'm a first year surgery resident on with you today. Hi, I'm Julie. I'm an obstetrics resident. And I'm on with you today. Hey, Anton. I'm a pathology resident. I'm on with you today. As if EDs aren't chaotic enough, many of them are staffed by a revolving door of medical learners.

0:42.6

Yet to each of these learners, the ED doc has a critical responsibility to teach.

0:48.0

This is a central tenet of what we do, and has been since the days of Hippocrates teaching his two sons.

0:55.6

To some, it comes intuitively,

1:02.4

but to others, it's the most difficult part of the job. Either way, we can all use some teaching on how to teach. Gone in the days of C-1, do one, teach one. By analogy, learning the skills of

1:10.2

effective teaching isn't dissimilar to learning

1:12.4

how to put in a central line. It takes thoughtful preparation, knowledge, and practice.

1:18.9

In this episode, we're going to talk about the how, the when, and the why we teach. We'll hear from

1:25.4

two master educators, Amal Matu, no introduction necessary, and Rick Pensonner,

1:31.2

who you may remember from his truly outstanding contribution to our episode on presentation skills.

1:36.8

We'll discuss the quick, easy tips on how you can take your educating skills from the likes of the teacher and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

1:43.8

Bueller. Bueller.

1:46.4

Bueller.

1:48.8

Bueller.

1:49.4

And elevate it to the likes of the Robin Williams character in Dead Poet Society.

1:53.7

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

1:59.0

We'll give you the lowdown on orienting the learner and establishing expectations at the start

2:03.8

of the shift, or even better before the shift, key questioning techniques to use in case

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