Teaching Inpatient Medicine: Connecting, Coaching, and Communicating in the Hospital

Teaching Inpatient Medicine: Connecting, Coaching, and Communicating in the Hospital
ISBN-10
019763902X
ISBN-13
9780197639023
Category
Medical
Language
English
Published
2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Sanjay Saint, Molly Harrod, Nathan Houchens

Description

"At the beginning of a small group teaching session, the teaching attending physician asked all team members to draw flow-volume curves that would be representative of normal physiology and different disease states. The attending mentioned to the senior medical resident, "This is important since it will definitely show up on your board examination." As the learners worked to map out the drawings, the attending recognized the difficulty of the request and instead of demeaning, was encouraging in her approach: "If you have the normal curve down, congratulate yourself." This positive reinforcement helped team members bolster their confidence before undertaking increasingly difficult steps"--

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