Neurology Clinician Educator Track (CNET)
Objectives:
- Enhance knowledge and skills as a clinician educator
- Apply a systemic approach to managing physical exam rounds with medical students
- Teach clinical reasoning skills in small group setting
- Contribute to scholarly work in medical education: Examples not limited to: Chapter development, curriculum development, ChalkTalks, Presentations, etc.
- Create a clinical educator portfolio
Details:
- Two year commitment
- PGY3 mainly, PGY2s welcome
- PGY4 year, resident will become Academic Chief
- Hours will need to be documented — Initially this will be used to gauge the workload and to develop a standard for future NCET participants
- Each resident on NCET will be paired with a mentor
- Certificate of NCET completion during graduation
Activities / Expectations:
- Create a project to be implemented over two years
- Formulate a project idea to present to committee with 2 year plan in the first few months
- Coordinate with mentor once project is approved
- Present project at Neurology Research Day at the end of the 2 years
- Assist with Stroke mock codes twice a year
- Assist with Overcoming Neurophobia Course
- Assist with Blumenfeld’s Didactics Series
- Assist with other teaching opportunities throughout the year which may include:
- Lumbar puncture medical student teaching sessions
- M&M Neurology sessions with Dr. Romero
- Overcoming Neurophobia lectures to Internal Medicine Didactics
- Developing and giving chalk talks to medical students
- Lectures to Neurology residents
- Resident is welcomed to create new teaching opportunities
- Participate in the IM Teaching Elective for at least 2 weeks
- PGY1s may be able to take this elective if planning to enter the NCET during PGY2/3 year
- Attend monthly hour-long seminars, as clinical schedule allows.
- Seminars focus on teaching and education skills
- Most will have an article or other reading
- Seminars led by internal medicine faculty department or other UT teaching faculty.
- Must attend >50% over the two years
- Example of previous topics
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- Mentorship
- Running noon report
- Bedside physical exam teaching skills
- Teaching clinical reasoning, adult learning theory
- Brief teaching models
- Feedback
- Developing and presenting a lecture or poster
- Curriculum development
- Understanding your teaching style, teaching procedures
- Supporting the struggling learner
- Clinician educator career development, presentation of portfolio
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- Afternoon physical exam rounds with medical students (from stroke, wards and VA)
- At least 4 per year
- Oserved by Dr. Palm or Wards attending with feedback provided after session
- Afternoon physical exam rounds with medical students (from stroke, wards and VA)
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- Activities may be altered to accommodate resident interests, or in the event that changes occur in program or medical school curricula.
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- As feedback is essential to improvement, the resident is encouraged to seek feedback during all teaching activities
- Educator’s portfolio creation
- Develop a portfolio of teaching activities and documentation to be presented at the end of the year
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- List of teaching activities: date, even, learners
- Curriculum products: eg, chapters, PowerPoints
- Evaluations or comments: from faculty or learners
- Video recordings: eg, brief recording of a lecture or noon report
- Reflective writings: your own musing or ideas about anything. Eg, blogging
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Requirements:
- Mentor meetings twice a year
- Need to have at least 3 teaching activities observed by a faculty member to provide feedback in order to accelerate development as an educator
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- Feedback form must be turned in as part of portfolio
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- Educational project presentation during Neurology Residency Research day
- Educator’s portfolio presentation to Education Faculty committee