Types of clinical reasoning in a summative clerkship oral examination.

Introduction: Dual-process theory characterizes clinical reasoning (CR) as Type 1 (intuitive) and Type 2 (analytical) thinking. This study examined CR on a summative clinical clerkship structured clinical oral examination (SCOE).

Methods And Subjects: 511 clinical clerks at the University of Toronto underwent SCOEs.

Impact of a formal mentoring program on academic promotion of Department of Medicine faculty: a comparative study.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a formal mentoring program on time to academic promotion and differences in gender-based outcomes.

Methods: Comparisons of time to promotion (i) before and after implementation of a formal mentoring program and (ii) between mentored and non-mentored faculty matched for covariates. Using paired-samples t-testing and mixed repeated measures ANCOVA, we explored the effect of mentor assignment and influence of gender on time to promotion.

Morning report blog: a web-based tool to enhance case-based learning.

Background: Morning report is an interactive case-based teaching session common to internal medicine training programs across North America.

Description: We report here on a morning report web log ("blog"), created and updated after morning report sessions by the Chief Medical Resident with pertinent clinical topics, links to journal articles, and medical images. Trainees on their internal medicine rotation were e-mailed a web link with each posting.