2/ This week, I will share tips on how to use questions to get ”the wheels turning” for your learners before rounds.
In just a few minutes, this focuses energy, engages team members in the cases they may not be following, and enhances bedside learning for everyone.
3/ Today’s 🧵 harkens back to one I posted about ”prediction questions”.
Inspiration: #SmallLearning from @LangOnCourse. It is tremendous, with a lot of useful ideas that can be applied in the classroom or clinical setting. FYI - 2nd ed just came out.
4/ @LangOnCourse provides a great analogy about the power of prediction: "[Predictive exercises] till the soil of your students minds and prepare a fertile ground for the learning that will follow."
5/ So, what is the science here?
Generating a prediction does a few things to improve learning from an emotional & cognitive standpoint:
6/ So how is it done? Here are some examples of scenarios and questions that can be asked about patients on a team that can prep your team for learning:
7/ What makes a good prediction question:
✅ It is posed as a fun activity to get people thinking
✅ It activates previous knowledge
✅ There is no ”right answer”. You all will discover the answer later when you see the patient, the consultant weighs in, or some result returns.
8/ This is a GREAT way to get all learners involved.
The primary provider has been thinking deeply about the patient, while others may not know much about them.
This helps focus all learners before meeting a new patient & prepares them to incorporate new information.
9/ After a prediction is made, however, it is important to discover the right answer ASAP.
One cannot let an incorrect prediction linger too long, as that risks cementing that prediction as “truth.”
10/ After you discover the truth, reflecting on your predictions is key to learning:
❓ Were you right? Wrong? Somewhere in between? Why?
❓ Did the patient’s presentation differ from a typical presentation? Why?
❓ Are there assumptions you made that must be challenged?
11/ This process is summed up with three key ideas:
🔑 Prediction (before rounds)
🔑 Exposure (getting the answer, during or after rounds)
🔑 Reflection (best as a group, during or after rounds)
12/ Are there other ways that you all get your learners ready to learn at the beginning of a clinical day?
Here’s a summary of how prediction questions can be used to prime learning and why it works.
13/ Thanks for joining us today!
The @MedEdTwagTeam is taking a break for a few weeks to spend some holiday QT with our families. For those who celebrate, we hope you are able to do the same!
Thanks #MedEd & #MedTwitter for all the support & engagement! Tweet you in 2022!
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1/ Learning objectives? For serious?!? 🤔
Aren’t those for boring pre-clinical lectures?
Are they even necessary? I seem to get by just fine without them.
You may get by fine but knowing how to use learning objectives will take your game to a new level. Let's go!
Today we will be chatting about how to fit in teaching when on an #InpatientTeaching service.
2/ As @JenniferSpicer4 outlined two weeks ago, we are going to structure our upcoming content in terms of different times when teaching can occur.
However, today is going to be an overview of structuring one’s day, and is part of our foundational skills section.
3/ And, as with all #MedEd, what I do will NOT translate directly to your practice, as learning contexts are so unique and specific. However, the big ideas and concepts are transferrable.
2/ I have had an excellent time sharing with you all my approach to #EffectiveQuestions in the clinical setting.
Here is where we have been during this journey.
3/ In the intro we talked about ”pimping” and the psychologically dangerous environment it creates, as illustrated by these drawings in this fascinating study:
2/ This week we continue talking about my favorite uses of questions in the clinical learning environment.
Last week was questions as a needs assessment. Go back and check that out if you missed it.
This week is questions for retrieval practice.
3/ Much of today’s thread is derived from a favorite book...Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.
It is very approachable and has super useful content. Today, we will talk about retrieval practice, and briefly touch on spaced learning and interleaving.