Seeing potential opportunities for teaching (SPOT): Evaluating a bundle of interventions to augment entrustable professional activity acquisition.

Introduction: Within the Canadian competency-based medical education system, entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are used to assess residents on performed clinical duties. This study aimed to determine whether implementing a bundle of two interventions (a case-based discussion intervention and a rotation-based nudging system) could increase the number of EPA assessments that could occur for our trainees.

Methods: The authors designed an intervention bundle with two components: 1) a case-based workshop where trainees discussed which EPAs could be assessed with multiple cases and 2) a nudging system wherein each trainee was reminded of EPAs that would be useful to them on each rotation in their first year.

Faculty-lead Opinions on Workplace-based Methods for Graduated Managerial Teaching (FLOW MGMT): A National Cross-sectional Survey of Canadian Emergency Medicine Lead Educators.

Objectives: Patient volumes are increasing in emergency departments (ED), causing issues with long wait times and overcrowding. One strategy to cope with this phenomenon is to focus on improving patient flow through the ED. Building on earlier work that identified how staff physicians manage flow and what techniques they employ to teach managerial skills to residents, we aimed to determine when it was most appropriate to implement these teaching strategies in a resident's training.

Redesigning continuing professional development: Harnessing design thinking to go from needs assessment to mandate.

Background: The world of medicine is constantly changing, and with it the continuing professional development (CPD) needs of physicians. As the CPD landscape is shifting away from unidirectional delivery of knowledge through live large group learning (conferences) and is placing increased emphasis on new approaches for skills training not taught a decade ago, a new approach is needed.

Approach: Using design thinking techniques, we hosted a full-day retreat for emergency medicine stakeholders in Hamilton and the surrounding region.

Just the Facts: how to teach emergency department flow management.

Even before starting your evening shift you know it's going to be busy. Ambulances are lined up in front of the hospital, and the charge nurse already seems stressed out. The senior Emergency Medicine (EM) resident is standing in the physician office, ready to start her shift as well.

Developing Residents as Medical Educators via the McMaster Multidisciplinary Academic Day Planning Committee.

Background Residents are being asked to perform educator roles such as curriculum design and learner assessment with minimal professional development in leadership or medical education. The Multidisciplinary Academic Day (MAD) planning committee is a resident-led initiative responsible for delivering combined educational half-day sessions and workshops for all residents at McMaster University. Objective We sought to determine the impact participation in MAD planning committee had on residents' professional development and career goals.