Effectiveness of a SNAPPS in psychiatric residents assessed using objective structured teaching encounters: a case-control study.

Background: Residents play the role of teachers in almost one-quarter of their activities in residency programs.

Objective: To evaluate whether a 45-minute class using summarize, narrow, analyze, probe, plan, and select (SNAPPS) could improve psychiatry residents' case discussion skills in diverse practical learning settings.

Design And Setting: This case-control, randomized, blinded study was conducted in a psychiatry hospital at Fortaleza-Ceará.

Objective structured teaching examination (OSTE): an underused tool developed to assess clinical teaching skills. A narrative review of the literature.

Background: There are plenty of options for evaluating medical students and medical residents' clinical skills. Objective structured clinical evaluations (OSCEs) have emerged as a powerful and reliable tool for assessing multiple cognition domains of clinical expertise. In the same way as OSCEs have emerged to assess clinical skills, objective structured teaching evaluations (OSTEs) have come to light as promising and unbiased interventions for evaluating the act of clinical teaching.

Teaching skills for medical residents: are these important? A narrative review of the literature.

Background: There is extensive evidence, mainly from the United States and Canada, that points towards the need to train medical residents in teaching skills. Much of the "informal curriculum", including professional values, is taught by residents when consultants are not around. Furthermore, data from the 1960s show the importance of acquiring these skills, not only for residents but also for all doctors.