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Emergency medicine residency fact board: Why our attempt to encourage on-shift learning failed Cover

Emergency medicine residency fact board: Why our attempt to encourage on-shift learning failed

Open Access
|Apr 2019

Abstract

Residents commonly feel that a lack of time is a significant barrier in keeping up-to-date with both medical knowledge and literature. In this study, we addressed that barrier by placing an iPad-based live fact feed in the resident workroom of our emergency department, therefore allowing for passive learning while on shift. We hypothesized that residents with access to the live feed would score higher on monthly post-curriculum block exams. We ended up finding that the residents actually prefer a more active approach to learning and that many more people in the emergency department other than the residents benefitted from the fact board.

Language: English
Published on: Apr 5, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Kimberly Sokol, Alisa Wray, Megan Boysen-Osborn, Warren Wiechmann, Kathryn Bennett, Shannon Toohey, published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.