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Pediatric Spasticity, Kavita Parikh, Olga Morozova, Melanie Anspacher, Neha Shah

E-Learning Modules

Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are increasingly prevalent in US hospitals. The pediatric hospitalist is often the primary provider of inpatient care for these patients. However, exposure to this patient population during training varies from provider to provider. No published educational curricula are specific to the inpatient care of this population. The purpose of this project is to build a multi-modal educational curriculum for providers with the overall goal of improving inpatient care for this at-risk population.

This curriculum is primarily composed of a series of topic-specific learning modules. Asynchronous learning modules, utilized appropriately, can augment learning by …

How To Formulate A Clinical Question And Effectively Search For The Answer, Neha Shah, Susan Keller

E-Learning Modules

This small group, case-based exercise is geared towards medical students on their pediatric clerkship. The goal of this session is to teach students how to re-frame their clinical questions into a format that allows for more effective and efficient searching of the literature.

I provide this session once a month as a part of the Third-year medical student core lecture series during their inpatient pediatrics rotation. My co-facilitator is a medical librarian. We initially used a lecture format in which we reviewed use of advanced PubMed features with very little interaction from the learners. Based on feedback and evaluations, we …

Broadening Our Game: Strengthening E-Professionalism Among Students, Alexandra Gomes, Gisela Butera, Thomas Harrod, Laura E. Abate, Anne Linton

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

To describe the initiatives undertaken by Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library to develop curricular modules on various aspects of e-professionalism including social media, copyright, plagiarism, intellectual property, and appropriate computer use.

Closing The Loop: Integrating Snapps Into An Outpatient Morning Report To Foster Self-Directed Learning And Encourage Use Of Evidence Based Medicine, Julia Magana, Jimmy Beck

E-Learning Modules

This resources describes a novel approach to outpatient morning report. This format encourages self-directed learning as well as teaches residents to use the clinical literature to ensure they were providing optimal patient care. Each resident daily chooses a clinical question from that day's patient care, investigates and brings the answer back to the group during morning report. This resource includes a description of the integration and implementation of this format as well as the handout used by the residents.

Since the implementation of our new morning report format, our residents have consistently read about their patients on a nightly basis. …

Fusion, 2012, George Washington University, William H. Beaumont Medical Research Honor Society

Fusion

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