Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Know When To Rock The Boat: How Faculty Rationalize Students' Behaviors, Shiphra Ginsburg, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Kathryn Underwood

Lorelei Lingard

BACKGROUND: When faculty evaluate medical students' professionalism, they make judgments based on the observation of behaviors. However, we lack an understanding of why they feel certain behaviors are appropriate (or not).

OBJECTIVE: To explore faculty's reasoning around potential student behaviors in professionally challenging situations.

DESIGN: Guided interviews with faculty who were asked to respond to 5 videotaped scenarios depicting students in professionally challenging situations.

SUBJECTS: Purposive sample of 30 attending Internists and surgeons.

APPROACH: Transcripts were analyzed using modified grounded theory to search for emerging themes and to attempt to validate a previous framework based on student responses.

RESULTS: Faculty's …

Measuring Educational Workload: A Pilot Study Of Paper-Based And Pda Tools, Susan Tallett, Lorelei Lingard, Karen Leslie, Jonathan Pirie, Ann Jefferies, Lawrence Spero, Rayfel Schneider, Robert Hilliard, Jay Rosenfield, Jonathan Hellmann, Marcellina Mian, Jennifer Hurley

Lorelei Lingard

BACKGROUND: Teaching is an important professional role for most faculty members in academic health sciences centres. Careful delineation of educational workload is needed to foster and reward teaching efforts, and to facilitate equitable allocation of resources.

AIMS: To promote recognition in teaching and facilitate equitable resource allocation, we developed, piloted, and qualitatively assessed a tool for delineating the educational workload of pediatric faculty in an academic health sciences centre.

METHODS: A prototype educational workload measurement tool was developed. Between 2002 and 2004, three successive phases of pilot implementation were conducted to (1) assess the face validity of the tool, (2) …