Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction: A graduating medical student should be competent in both teaching and communication skills. This concept is supported by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Our study describes how we utilized problem-based learning as a platform for developing student teaching skills and to examine preliminary outcomes. Methods: Since 2013, third-year medical students at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine have participated in a mandatory problem-based learning course in parallel to their clinical rotations. During the course orientation students have been led through interactive sessions on writing learning objectives and methods for effective micro-teaching sessions. During seven subsequent sessions, trained faculty members have assessed and provided narrative comments on students' "Ability to Teach Peers" using an anchored developmental scale rubric. Data from four academic years were available for analysis. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to test differences between the initial and final sessions. Results: At the initial session, 39.0% (n=147) received ratings of "mastering." By the final session, 62.6% (n=236) received ratings of "mastering." Conclusion: Our preliminary work demonstrates that a brief orientation to micro-teaching followed by repeated mandatory practice and feedback within our problem-based learning curriculum may serve to build students' teaching skills.
Highlights
A graduating medical student should be competent in both teaching and communication skills
Our preliminary findings show that initial instruction in basic principles followed by narrative feedback within a problem-based learning course may contribute to improving students’ teaching skills
Our preliminary work demonstrates that a brief orientation to micro-teaching followed by repeated mandatory practice and feedback within our problem-based learning curriculum may build students’ teaching skills, as judged by faculty ratings as well as student perception
Summary
A graduating medical student should be competent in both teaching and communication skills. Our review of subsequent literature on this topic revealed several additional reports of elective experiences occurring in the fourth year (Shah et al, 2017; Yeung et al, 2018; Yoon, Blatt and Greenberg, 2017). While these learning opportunities will support the development of skills among students who choose them, the challenge of promoting competency in all students calls for changes to the mandatory curriculum. With time constraints limiting curricular expansion, educators might identify opportunities in existing curricula to provide students both practice to teach and feedback on their teaching One such opportunity includes student presentations incorporated within active learning pedagogies such as problem-based learning (PBL)
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