Overview
Core Program
- Anchored each year at the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) conference
- Blended learning model that includes face-to-face learning at two sequential half-day pre-conference workshops at PHM, as well as quarterly assignments via the APEX online learning platform, participation in elective workshops, and clinical teaching observations by a local expert mentor.
- Year 1 Content:
- The Learning Environment
- Effective Clinical Teaching
- Giving Feedback
- Year 2 Content:
- Working with Learners in Difficulty
- Building a Career in Medical Education
- Teaching Scholarship: Cohort Workshop Development
Interval Curriculum
- Online platform for sharing reflections, participating in facilitated discussions, and completing quarterly assignments
- Two (2) onsite direct observations of teaching by a local mentor, as well as reflection and feedback after observations
- If needed, APEX Steering Committee will assist participants with limited resources in finding appropriate mentors (inter-departmental or inter-institutional)
Elective Curriculum
- Three (3) education-focused elective workshops selected from approved tracks at national conferences
- APEX Steering Committee will review and designate qualifying workshops at PHM, PAS, COMSEP, APPD, or other national meetings; however, adequate opportunities are available to complete all 3 electives in Year 1 of PHM attendance.
Learning Objectives
Upon their completion of the APEX teaching program, participants will be able to:
- Describe basic and advanced principles and strategies for clinical teaching, including:
- Creating an effective learning climate
- Teaching effectively and efficiently on the fly
- Giving effective feedback
- Developing plans for working with struggling learners
- Building career opportunities in medical education
- Disseminating teaching skills training through national workshops
- Develop and implement teaching innovations in their own clinical practice
- Share teaching innovations and ideas with their program cohort through web-based and onsite discussion
- Establish significant and lasting relationships with pediatric hospitalist educator peers as well as nationally recognized PHM educator experts.
- Implement clinical teaching for other pediatric hospitalists at their home institution.
Effective Clinical Teaching
Goal
To review effective clinical teaching techniques and adapt them to time-limited settings.
Objectives
After completing the module, participants will be able to
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List three characteristics of an effective clinical teacher.
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Describe an evidence-based model for teaching effectively while delivering patient care.
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Discuss innovative strategies for efficient bedside teaching in the modern clinical environment.
Giving Feedback
Goal
To construct the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for providing effective feedback in the teaching/learning setting.
Objectives
At the end of the module, the learner will be able to
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Define and describe the elements that comprise several models for giving effective feedback to learners.
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Distinguish between the characteristics of effective versus ineffective feedback.
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Identify barriers to giving effective feedback.
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Identify problems associated with ineffective feedback.
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Apply principles of giving feedback to clinical teaching/learning scenario.
Working With Struggling Learners
Goal
To define frameworks and resources that front-line educators can use when they want to enhance learner’s clinical reasoning, professionalism, and interpersonal communications skills.
Objectives
After completing the module, participants will be able to
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Practice using tools and meta-cognitive strategies for addressing problems with clinical reasoning.
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Apply principles of behavior change theory, deliberate practice, and reflection in exercises to promote and remediate professionalism.
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Expand skills for helping learners enhance communication with families and health providers.
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List some common resources (individuals, groups, committees) that clinical educators might access for struggling learners and identify those resources at your home institution within the next 6 months.
Goal
To learn how to create and successfully run an interactive, memorable workshop.
Objectives
After completing the module, participants will be able to
- Describe the characteristics of an effective workshop.
- List at least two methods to facilitate active learning.
- Design a workshop lesson plan.
Building a Career in Medical Education: Advice from the Experts
Goal
To mentor participants in methods for creating a career niche as educators.
Objectives
After completing the module, participants will be able to
- Describe various opportunities for advancement in medical education.
- List personal needs for developing a career in education.
- Identify resources both locally and nationally to help them develop as educators.