Graduated Responsibility

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Graduated Responsibility

• From Medical Student to Physician
• University of BC
• Faculty of Medicine
• Department of Family Practice
• Post Graduate Program

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Residents are ADULT LEARNERS

• What are some of the characteristics of adult
  learners?
• Take two minutes to write down several
  characteristics of adult learners.

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Adult Learners are

• Self directed
• Learner centred
• Problem oriented
• Curiosity driven
• Reflective
• Individually and culturally different

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Remember !

• With Adult learners our role is that of a GUIDE
  as much as a teacher.

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Challenge

• Finding the balance between supervision and
  independence when teaching family practice
  residents.
• What are the consequences of too little or too
  much independence?

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Too little responsibility

• Boredom
• Demeaning
• Unchallenged
• Limited Progress
• No confidence

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Too Much Responsibility

• Do not feel safe to challenge themselves
• Fear
• Medical error and undesired outcomes

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Educational Diagnosis

• Deciding where your learner is
• What is an educational diagnosis?

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Bordage stages of learning

• I Reduced knowledge
• II Dispersed knowledge
• III Elaborated knowledge
• IV Compiled knowledge

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Discuss

• Think of the resident you have now or have had
  recently. At what stage are they with many of
  the topics you deal with?
• Where should they be?

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Benchmarks

• The Program has developed a list of benchmarks to
  help you understand the levels of knowledge and
  skills a resident should have developed at each
  stage of their residency. See
• http//postgrad.familymed.ubc.ca/resources/resourc
  es-for-evaluating-residents/

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Start of 1st year

• Hospital Hx and Px taking an hour
• Large Knowledge gaps
• Common vs. Uncommon?
• Little deductive ability
• Therapeutics weak
• Contextual issues weak

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You need to

• Observe Hx and Exam
• Observe pelvic exams and procedures
• Daily observation of parts of visits
• Question reasoning
• Correct mistakes
• Encourage resident to read around issues

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2nd half of 1st year

• Crisper and more focused Hx and exam
• Better appreciation of range of common problems.
  (fewer esoteric dx.)
• Better active listening
• More rational use of investigations
• Better therapeutics

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You need to

• Discuss each case but briefer and focused
• Allow resident more decision making
• Watch for gaps and encourage reading up, rapid
  EBM? Online information?
• Review interviews and exams regularly and
  formally weekly.
• Watch for over confidence

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2nd year to graduation

• Significantly less supervision.
• As the resident progresses give him or her more
  opportunity to be independent.

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Teaching Techniques

• Take a couple of minutes and write down what
  teaching techniques you use when working with a
  medical student, a first year or a second year
  resident? Do you have techniques that allow
  increasing degrees of responsibility?

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Teaching Techniques

• Case Discussion
• For First Year residents needing greater
  supervision
• Case Review
• Chart Review and recall
• - For Second Year residents or those needing
  less supervision

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Suggestion

• 1st day, resident watches you
• Next 2-3 days, you watch to make an educational
  diagnosis
• Then, regular but decreasing direct observations
• Credit demonstrated competencies
• Micro-skills (one minute preceptor)
• Graduate to reviews
• Critical reflection, Open ended questions

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Progression

• Observation and direction, knowledge without
  application Medical Student
• Application of knowledge, Freedom to err in a
  safe environment Early Residency
• Some independence with regular review Late
  Residency
• Independence with occasional review and
  observation End Residency

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Ask yourself

• Is the resident more independent during the last
  week than the first?
• Is part of your teaching objective to encourage
  independence?
• Has the resident acquired skills for which he/she
  is justifiably confident?

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Thank You

• This module was written as an aid to the
  Preceptors in the Postgraduate Family Practice
  Program at the University of BC.
• Study credit is available to groups of preceptors
  who complete the module
• Please give us your feedback on the module so
  that we may improve it for others.
• Email you comments to Dr. Christie Newton,
  Faculty Development, UBC Family Practice
• christie.newton_at_familymed.ubc.ca