Teaching Using Clinical Cases

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Thursday, 21 July 2005
This presentation is part of 4: Poster Session
Teaching Using Clinical Cases

Description: Medical student clerkships are designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop a critical, problem-oriented approach to patient care, using multiple, often distant clinical sites, with varied patient populations. To address the variability of the faculty presentations, we created a series of web-supported case seminars to review a variety of common pediatric problems.
Presentation Format: Poster
Topic: Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models
Target Audience: Faculty and Other Instructors
Appropriate Audience Level: Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version: WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text: Medical student clerkships are designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop a critical, problem-oriented approach to patient care. Given the time constraints of traditional medical student clerkships, it is not feasible to expose a student to all of the pathologic entities within a particular discipline during a clinical rotation. To address this in Pediatrics, we created a series of web-supported case seminars to review a variety of common pediatric problems.
The cases are based in large part on the National COMSEP Curriculum. Each case is organized with case objectives, suggested references, a short case presentation, and guiding questions. Students prepare for seminar sessions by reviewing a case's objectives and the patient's clinical presentation. Faculty utilize these cases during seminar sessions to review a basic approach to patients, organization of data, generation of a differential diagnosis, and management for a variety of pediatric conditions.
Seminar sessions are entirely small-group, interactive, and case-based. The new curriculum is web-supported and uses multimedia resources to assure that the cases can be delivered efficiently across multiple and distant clinical sites. Computers are available at each site and are linked to WEB-CT, the program supporting our undergraduate on-line curriculum.
Core educators are given faculty development aimed at effective case facilitation, and specifically addressed creating a safe learning environment and establishing a learning contract. A faculty website was also created, which contains a comprehensive, printable teacher's guide with extended case discussions. Image links are also accessible through the faculty website; these include photographic images, growth charts, x-rays, microscopy, and sound files.
Initial responses to this method of teaching have been favorable. Students have reported that the teaching is of high caliber and the topics that are addressed are high yield. Some were impressed by both the format and the level of interactivity of the sessions.

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Description:	Medical student clerkships are designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop a critical, problem-oriented approach to patient care, using multiple, often distant clinical sites, with varied patient populations. To address the variability of the faculty presentations, we created a series of web-supported case seminars to review a variety of common pediatric problems.
Presentation Format:	Poster
Topic:	Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models
Target Audience:	Faculty and Other Instructors
Appropriate Audience Level:	Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version:	WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text:	Medical student clerkships are designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop a critical, problem-oriented approach to patient care. Given the time constraints of traditional medical student clerkships, it is not feasible to expose a student to all of the pathologic entities within a particular discipline during a clinical rotation. To address this in Pediatrics, we created a series of web-supported case seminars to review a variety of common pediatric problems. The cases are based in large part on the National COMSEP Curriculum. Each case is organized with case objectives, suggested references, a short case presentation, and guiding questions. Students prepare for seminar sessions by reviewing a case's objectives and the patient's clinical presentation. Faculty utilize these cases during seminar sessions to review a basic approach to patients, organization of data, generation of a differential diagnosis, and management for a variety of pediatric conditions. Seminar sessions are entirely small-group, interactive, and case-based. The new curriculum is web-supported and uses multimedia resources to assure that the cases can be delivered efficiently across multiple and distant clinical sites. Computers are available at each site and are linked to WEB-CT, the program supporting our undergraduate on-line curriculum. Core educators are given faculty development aimed at effective case facilitation, and specifically addressed creating a safe learning environment and establishing a learning contract. A faculty website was also created, which contains a comprehensive, printable teacher's guide with extended case discussions. Image links are also accessible through the faculty website; these include photographic images, growth charts, x-rays, microscopy, and sound files. Initial responses to this method of teaching have been favorable. Students have reported that the teaching is of high caliber and the topics that are addressed are high yield. Some were impressed by both the format and the level of interactivity of the sessions.