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Residents as Teachers

Teaching

  • As seniors, it’s now your responsibility to help with teaching during and after rounds
  • This is for your benefit as well as the interns/med students
  • Typically like to have medical students on med service research a topic they like or one that was seen that day and present it to the team in a 2-minute talk the following day
  • Not done every day… can be too much if the next day is a call day
  • Keeps medical students entertained and typically you learn something
  • Ex. “Hey Austin, can you research Cellulitis tonight and teach it to me tomorrow? Only looking for like a 2-minute brief talk”

Chalk Talks

  • Short, 2-to-5-minute presentations
  • Keep it narrow and SHORT. Digestible.
  • Goal is to teach while learning the topic yourself in a simplified manner without missing the key points
  • Pick a Relevant Topic (take inspiration from your patients)
  • Things you only briefly touched on during rounds
  • Teach them your thought process
  • Debunking common myths helps (stay evidence based)
  • Use figures/flow charts
  • Stay FOCUSED
  • Suggestions:
    • Cerebral Edema
    • Anemia
    • AKI
    • AECOPD
    • Chest Pain
    • DKA
    • GDMT
    • Meningitis
    • Uncontrolled Hypertension
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