Curricular Resources

Professionalism

  • Teaching and Assessing Professionalism: A Program Director’s Guide
  • Gifts, Drugs, and The FDA: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Physician-Pharmaceutical Interactions
  • Fostering an Atmosphere of Professionalism in a Residency Program: Learning How to Address the Unprofessional Behavior of Colleagues Through OSCEs
  • Assessment of Professional Behaviors
  • Virtual Mentor
  • The Medical Professionalism Blog
  • The Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise
  • Professionalism in Medicine (is geared for medical students but has some great videos that could be used for discussion) -

Communication Skills

  • Effective Communication Tools for Healthcare Professionals
  • DocCom - enhancing competence in healthcare communication
  • Implicit Association Test: Project Implicit®
  • Best Intentions: Using the Implicit Associations Test to Promote Reflection About Personal Bias
  • End of Life / Palliative Education Resource Center
  • MedEdPORTAL (Angry Patient and Disclosing Error)
  • Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
  • A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
  • Can We Talk? - Case Studies In Communication Challenges And Conflict Management for Clinicians
  • Breaking Bad News
  • Disclosure of Adverse Events
  • Teaching Patient Safety via a Structured Review of Medical Errors: A Novel Approach to Educating Residents about Medical Error, Disclosure, and Malpractice

Practice Based Learning and Improvement

  • Reflective Practice and Leadership
  • Quality Filtering and Evidence Based Medicine and Health
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Evidence Based Medicine Teaching and Resources
  • Fostering the Efficient, Effective Use of Evidence-Based Medicine in the Clinic
  • Evidence-Based Medicine Appraisal Companions

Resident’s Teaching Skills

  • Resident’s as Teachers
  • Resident’s Teaching Skills by Janine C. Edwards
  • Psychiatric Resident’s as Teachers: A Practical Guide
  • Resident’s-as-Teachers Curriculum

Systems Based Practice

  • Practice Improvement Modules
  • Education in Quality Improvement in Pediatric Practice
  • GME Today
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School
  • Tufts Health Care Institute (Understanding Managed Care)
  • East Tennessee state web based curriculum
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Web Morbidity and Mortality Cases

Faculty Development

  • Curriculum Development for Medical Education by David Kern et. al
  • Case writing resources
  • Writing Test Questions and
  • Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum
  • Johns Hopkins Faculty Development
  • The Clinician-Educator’s Handbook
  • The MCG Medical Teacher's Handbook
  • Teaching Skills for Community Based Preceptors
  • MedEdPORTAL

Evaluation

  • Assessment in Graduate Medical Education: A Primer for Pediatric Program Directors
  • A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies by Elizabeth Rider et al.
  • Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence by Eric Holmboe et al.
  • MedEdPORTAL
  • Yahoo/Google

Innovative Tips

  • Residency Program Alert

Repositories

  • MedEdPORTAL
  • HEAL– Health Education Assets Library
  • MERLOT– Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
  • Family Medicine Digital Resources Library

Learning Styles

  • VARK – A Guide to Learning Styles
  • Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
  • Center for Academic Excellence (LSU) Diagnostic Tools
  • Mini Myers Briggs Type (as well as many other websites)

Sleep, Fatigue, Stress and Burnout

  • LIFE curriculum – Learning to address Impairment and Fatigue to Enhance Patient Safety
  • SAFER program – Sleep, Alertness, and Fatigue Education in Residency
  • Sleep, Fatigue, Stress, Burnout and Learning to Address Impairment and Fatigue
  • Stress Management from Mind Tools

Leadership

  • The Art and Science of Leadership
  • A Textbook for Today’s Chief Resident by AAIM
  • Leadership Tools
  • The Chief Resident as Manager by Neal Whitman
  • Human resources at your hospital

Miscellaneous adjuncts

  • PB wiki
  • Moodle Course Management System
  • Google Docs
  • Survey Monkey
  • Quiz star
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint
  • Easypolls (free tool for creation of polls)
  • Udemy (free tool for teaching and educating online)

Compiled by Mark Ward, MD (), Cara Doughty (), and Teri Turner, MD, MPH, MEd () February 2013