Last week on the fellow education day we did the ESRD NephSAP. Dr. Bellovich showed me that the complete text is available through iTunes as a podcast. Sweet. I have started to listen to the NephSAP in the car. Seems like a pretty cool way to get the info.
Using NephSAP for teaching on the consult service.
New month. Back on the consult service.
Dr. Jabri is the consult fellow and we are going to read the NephSAP on GNs. Should be good.
NephSAP for Consult Service Education
One of my weaknesses as a faculty member has been teaching during the consult service. I do a lot of bedside teaching and have tried to do some Practice Based Learning by having the fellows pull articles and research specific questions.
What I haven’t been able to incorporate is formal teaching. Most of my repertoire of teaching materials, up to recently, have been power-point presentations. These are totally wrong for the collegial learning relationship I enjoyed and want to provide for my fellows. Powerpoint stifles two-way communication and reinforces the model of master to apprentice.
On the recommendation of one of our Staff, Dr. El-Ghoroury, I have started a daily reading session with the consult team. We are going through the 2007 Acute Renal Failure and Critical Care NephSAP. So far it is working great. We are spending 40-60 minutes before rounds reading and discussing the material. Then on rounds I see the fellows using the material in their presentations to me. They tell me they like it. I plan on having them pull interesting references to delve deeper into the text.