SGIM Mid-Atlantic Region Teaching Competition Submission

Criteria for inclusion: 3rd year medical students to early career faculty member (<5 years after training)

Audience: Tailor to an early practicing physician (eg. First year faculty)

What to submit: Presentation title, rationale for topic chosen, and the educational strategy that will be utilized for the presentation. Please keep submissions to 250 words or less.

Sample Submission 

Effective Communication with Consultants 

Rationale: In an assessment of the internal medicine residents at our institution, we found that there was a disparity between the confidence of residents in providing consultation questions when compared to the perceived competence of those same residents by sub-specialty medicine fellows. Emergency medicine literature has several detailed methods to convey information for a consult, but none have been developed in internal medicine. In this session we plan to introduce the audience to the 3 C’s of consultation. Which is our adapted version of the emergency medicine literature. This information includes patient identification, consult question and consult urgency. Spaced repetition will be utilized to ensure retention. Specifically, we will provide the 3 C’s in the introduction of our talk. We will present the information on the consultation communication method and then at the end of our talk we will again ask the audience to recall the 3 C’s. We will use Poll Everywhere to have audience response to ensure interaction and for the speaker to assess the effectiveness of the presentation. 

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