Coursera - Teaching and Assessing Clinical Skills

Course Syllabus
Each section will be covered leading professors in the specific areas:

Week 1 - Feedback: Dr. Sally Santen (Assistant Dean of Educational Research and Quality Improvement, Associate Chair of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Learning Health Sciences) and Dr. Jocelyn Schiller (Clerkship Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases) from the University of Michigan Medical School

The content will cover

• What is feedback?
• Why should we provide feedback? Why is feedback difficult?
• A model for providing feedback

Week 2 - Orienting your Learner: Dr. Jenny Christner (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Upstate Medical University, State University of New York) and Dr. Sally Santen

The content will cover

• Why is orientation important?
• A model for ORIENTing the learner
• What belongs in orientation
• Designing and providing orientation to your setting

Week 3 - Integration & Connection: Dr. Sally Santen

This is a period for catchup, reflection, integration and connection. It will include some discussion forums and specific times to connect in real time via social media (hang-out)

Week 4 - RIME* Model for Learner Assessment and Feedback: Dr. Jenny Christner and Dr. Sally Santen

The content will cover

• What is RIME? (Reporter, Interpreter, Manager, Educator model from Dr Lou Pangaro)
• RIME in use
• How to incorporate RIME into your practice

Week 5 - How to Effectively Supervise and Teach Residents: Entrustment and Autonomy: Dr. Sally Santen and Dr. Meg Wolff (Assistant Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases) from the University of Michigan Medical School

The content will cover

• What is entrustment?
• Factors affecting entrsutment
• Entrustment in practice
• Tips to entrustment

Week 6 - Integration, Connection & Summation: Dr Sally Santen

This is a period for catchup, reflection, integration, connection and summation. It will include some discussion forums, specific times to connect in real time via social media (hang-out) and final action plans of how to move forward.

Recommended Background
The appropriate background is a health professional working with learners in the clinical environment. This course is provided by physicians and therefore aimed at physician learners. We think that the principles can be applied to all of the health professions.

Suggested Readings
In the reference section of each unit, you are provided a list of recommended/optional resources that you can use to enhance your learning on the topic. These materials are not required for your participation in the course.

Course Format
Because this course is trying to teach you skills the format is aimed towards. Each session has:

1. Material to be learned
2. A series of videos to apply the content with a debrief discussing the videos.
3. At each step we will ask you to reflect on the material though a discussion board and respond to others posts. You are encouraged to participate in the Discussion Forums to further explore and develop your knowledge about the topic areas. We have created discussion forums corresponding to some of the video segments. You will be encouraged to participate in these discussion threads created by us as part of your planned activities for the course.
4. In addition, we will provide several experts talking about their effective approaches
5. Finally, we will ask you to go out and apply the skills, get some feedback, reflect on the process and through the workplace assessments (self assessment & reflection).

** This class will work best for you if you have a partner or a trio in your institution for you to work with. The course is designed to teach skills that are best learned with practice and feedback.  Therefore if you partner with a colleague to work on this course, you will learn more through your partener’s input and feedback.