School of Medicine

Dear incoming resident,

As part of our efforts to enhance residents’ abilities to teach, we are requiring the completion of a web-based program designed to improve your knowledge and skills around three areas important to teaching – 1) precepting microskills, 2) observation and feedback, and 3) brief teaching talks. In addition,

The following links will lead you to Kansas University School of Medicine’s Strategies in Clinical Teaching website for each of the three required modules:

Precepting Microskills - http://wichita.kumc.edu/strategies/microskills/index.html

This section will expose you to the “microskills” of teaching in order to help you understand what makes some teachers more effective than others.

Observation and Feedback - http://wichita.kumc.edu/strategies/observation/index.html

This section will help you understand the difference between evaluation and feedback, learn how to incorporate feedback into daily activities, and learn how to deliver both positive and negative feedback in a timely manner.

The Ten-Minute Talk - http://wichita.kumc.edu/strategies/tenminute/index.html

This section will help you understand the advantages of brief lectures, how to construct short handouts, and how to enhance your lecture’s effectiveness.

Please read through the module and then complete the post-test at the end (best done using Internet Explorer, not Netscape). These modules were developed as part of a faculty development program, but the sections we are asking you to complete directly relate to the teaching activities in which you will be engaged this year. We would also request you to review the section on bedside teaching (http://wichita.kumc.edu/strategies/bedside/index.html), but since the post-test is the same as that for observation and feedback, you need not complete that post-test.

As verification of completing the post-test, please print the post-test with the “Your Score” box showing how you did (your score). You will need to bring print outs of the three post-tests to your resident orientation in June 2007 or email them as attachments ahead of time to Nancy Ciliax (nciliax@emory.edu). You are required to complete these modules before your July 1 start date.

If you have any questions regarding this pre-matriculation assignment, please contact Nancy Ciliax (nciliax@emory.edu) in the GME office. You can also find links to these required modules on our GME website at http://www.med.emory.edu/GME/Residents_as_Teachers.cfm. We look forward to having you join our residency family and being outstanding teachers to your medical students, fellow residents, and faculty physicians.

Sincerely,

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