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Alton Skaggs
So can you all just share some general best practices that academic leaders can adopt to effectively leverage these resources?
Dr. Erin Gomez
Yeah, I think number one is, is to talk to your audience. Right. See, we have so many different learners within our program, so many different learning styles. They all need different things. But I think there are there's like a consensus out there among this generation of learners about what's working for them.
Just talk to them, you know, which can be hard, right? It can be hard to hear. I don't want to do this didactic lecture. Could you assign me something online and then we can come in and do cases together that can be better medicine for some people who have been giving didactic for 25 years. Right, but I think, engaging with the learning audience and, and getting a feel for what's really going to be effective for them in their learning style is the best way to start out.
Dr. Amita Kamath
Yeah, I think I completely echo what Erin said. And then a couple things that I thought about were that, you also have to educate your faculty members because many of them, you know, trained in a different generation in a different time as well. And so, you know, they may not agree with you that some of the these digital resources may be even better than the lecture that they've been giving the same lecture last however many years.
So you kind of have to like, convert the faculty as well, to, to this changing way of educating trainees. And then I would say that, for example, since we adopted modality for our program, the way that we went about doing that was, actually through a resident who approached me and said, you know, this is a resource.
I think it's lacking, that we have a gap in this in this particular area in our program. And I really think that we should consider this. And, you know, we sort of did a pilot. We got a few, you know, accounts. We tried it out. We had some people, you know, people on our education team that, analyze this particular resource.
And then, ultimately, you know, we met again and decided it was the appropriate resource to kind of push for an advocate for and and that's how we brought it on board. And then I consistently ask for feedback at the meetings like, this is working, are using it. How much are we using? Is it worth it? You know, do we want to keep using it?
Alton Skaggs
So can you all just share some general best practices that academic leaders can adopt to effectively leverage these resources?
Dr. Erin Gomez
Yeah, I think number one is, is to talk to your audience. Right. See, we have so many different learners within our program, so many different learning styles. They all need different things. But I think there are there's like a consensus out there among this generation of learners about what's working for them.
Just talk to them, you know, which can be hard, right? It can be hard to hear. I don't want to do this didactic lecture. Could you assign me something online and then we can come in and do cases together that can be better medicine for some people who have been giving didactic for 25 years. Right, but I think, engaging with the learning audience and, and getting a feel for what's really going to be effective for them in their learning style is the best way to start out.
Dr. Amita Kamath
Yeah, I think I completely echo what Erin said. And then a couple things that I thought about were that, you also have to educate your faculty members because many of them, you know, trained in a different generation in a different time as well. And so, you know, they may not agree with you that some of the these digital resources may be even better than the lecture that they've been giving the same lecture last however many years.
So you kind of have to like, convert the faculty as well, to, to this changing way of educating trainees. And then I would say that, for example, since we adopted modality for our program, the way that we went about doing that was, actually through a resident who approached me and said, you know, this is a resource.
I think it's lacking, that we have a gap in this in this particular area in our program. And I really think that we should consider this. And, you know, we sort of did a pilot. We got a few, you know, accounts. We tried it out. We had some people, you know, people on our education team that, analyze this particular resource.
And then, ultimately, you know, we met again and decided it was the appropriate resource to kind of push for an advocate for and and that's how we brought it on board. And then I consistently ask for feedback at the meetings like, this is working, are using it. How much are we using? Is it worth it? You know, do we want to keep using it?
