Paediatrics Rotation Evaluation

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Paediatrics Rotation Evaluation

• Clerkship and Electives Committee
• December 15, 2003
• Presented by Adnan Pirbhai, Kamila Premji,
  Alexandra Zorzi

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Survey Details

• Administered by e-mail to Clerkship Groups 1 and
  2 (including Windsor clerks) and 1 IMG student
• Responses were graded on a 7 point scale from
  Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (7)
• Students were given 10 days to return the
  completed surveys by email
• We received 15 completed surveys out of a
  possible 28 (53.6)

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Survey Results
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Results Contd
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Results Contd
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General Comments

• Clear general objectives, but overwhelming
  specific objectives
• Overall well organized, but formal teaching
  sessions poorly administered in Block 2
• Formal teaching disrupts day
• Written exam did not reflect experiences in CTU
  and ER
• Considerable variation in oral examination
  evaluation
• Exit interview should be more personal and
  constructive

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General Comments Contd

• Consultants/residents contribute well to learning
  environment (through formal and informal
  teaching)
• Although good exposure to paediatrics, many feel
  some general outpatient paediatrics should be
  mandatory

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CTU Comments

• Good variety of patient problems
• Excellent team medicine learning experience,
  however sometimes paperwork got in the way of
  clinical learning
• Appropriate level of responsibility and
  independence
• Expectations, though, not clearly defined
• Physically exhausting and busy service, sometimes
  too busy for good informal teaching
• More bedside teaching needed

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Paeds ER Comments

• Breadth of problem exposure and procedure
  involvement varied from student to student, week
  to week
• Great teaching around patients with good hands on
  learning
• More service based than learning based compared
  to other rotations
• Some consultants did not hand in evaluations

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Selective Comments
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Selective Comments
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Windsor Comments

• Excellent learning experience
• Enthusiastic consultants dedicated to quality
  teaching appropriate for level of clerk
• Few opportunities for procedures in ER
• I was extremely pleased with my learning
  experience in paediatrics in Windsor.

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Summary

• An excellent learning experience overall with
  great consultants and residents
• More teaching (formal and bedside)
• Specific learning objectives (cases) overwhelming
  and not reflective of clinical experience
• Evaluation methods not reflective of clinical
  experience
• Mandatory general outpatient component should be
  considered

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• THANK YOU!