CONTINUOUS LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Case Conference

	PGY 1, 2 and 3 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care	1) Contribute to supplementing case presentation with further inquiry of history and exam findings 2) Contribute to decision on what further work up is needed and why 3) Contribute to creation of differential diagnosis and understand how to use to prioritize the workup 4) Contribute to and understand the treatment decisions	Global Faculty Assessment
Medical Knowledge	Apply medical knowledge to the discussion about the case as it is presented	Global Faculty Assessment
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills	Contribute in an educational and respectful manner to the discussion	Global Faculty Assessment
Professionalism	1) Attendance 2) Respectful discussion of case relative to the patient and the care providers	1) Attendance 2) Global Faculty Assessment
Systems-Based Practice	Develop some understanding of how the medical system affects how the care was managed

Continuity Clinic Conference Series

This is a series of about 50, fifteen-minute talks, given weekly at the beginning of each half-day of continuity clinic by the staff physicians

	PGY 1,2, and 3 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge	1) To learn about common outpatient medical topics 2) To learn about common outpatient procedures and understand the indications and contraindications, recognition and management of complications, pain management, and sterile techniques and in some of the procedures knowledge of specimen handling, interpretation of results, and knowledge of the requirements to obtain informed consent	Global Faculty Assessment
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	Attendance	Global Faculty Assessment
Systems-Based Practice

EKG lecture series

	PGY 1, 2, and 3 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge	Learn EKG evaluation	Exam near the end of G1 year
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	Attendance	Attendance
Systems-Based Practice

Grand Rounds

Educational objectives:

	PGY 1 and 2	PGY 3
Patient Care	Learn from case discussion	1) Learn from case discussion 2) Present case
Medical Knowledge	Learn from topic discussion and lecture	1) Learn from topic discussion and lecture 2) Review literature, prepare and present topic lecture at Grand Rounds
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills		Present topic lecture at Grand Rounds
Professionalism	Attendance	Attendance
Systems-Based Practice

Assessment Method:
- Global Faculty Assessment of Grand Rounds

Journal Club/Critical Appraisal Conference

Educational objectives:

	PGY 2	PGY 3
Patient Care	1) Understand how primary literature relates to patient care.	1) Be able to discuss and conceive of how the primary literature should impact patient care
Medical Knowledge	1) Understand the background rationale for performing the study in question 2) Understanding the types of studies, the method, and the randomization process 3) Start the process of learning study design, statistics, and other information about the medical literature	1) Be able to evaluate the methods and randomization process 2) Be able to analyze and explain the results 3) Offer opinions on what are the strengths and weaknesses of the study 4) Explain how the study may affect current care standards 5) Continue the process of learning study design, statistics, and other information about the medical literature
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills	Presentation of the background and the type, method, and randomization of the study	Presentation of the results and evaluation of the study
Professionalism	1) Understanding the influences of outside parties such as pharmaceutical and medical device industries on medical literature 2) Attendance	1) Understanding the influences of outside parties such as pharmaceutical and medical device industries on medical literature 2) Attendance
Systems-Based Practice	Develop a basic knowledge of how the primary literature can be used to improve patient care through implementation of systems	Develop a robust understanding of clinical practice guidelines in relation to the primary literature, while recognizing its limitations

Assessment Method:
- Global Faculty Assessment both years

- Formal test on statistics, study design, and other topics related to the medical literature at the end of the G3 year

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

Includes: M&M conference, autopsy conference, and code conference

	PGY 1, 2 and 3 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care	1) To review cases with complications and poor outcomes 2) To understand review and better understand errors in patient care and review outcomes 3) To review potential limits in pre-mortem evaluations and review post-mortem data 4) To review code blue care and processes	Global Faculty Assessment
Medical Knowledge	Apply medical knowledge to the discussion about the cases as they are presented	Global Faculty Assessment
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement	Review cases and discuss potential errors in medical care or judgment and provide learning to help prevent future errors and help provide more effective care in the future	Global Faculty Assessment
Interpersonal and Communication Skills	Contribute in an educational and respectful manner to the discussion	Global Faculty Assessment
Professionalism	1) Attendance 2) Respectful discussion of case relative to the patient and the care providers	1) Attendance 2) Global Faculty Assessment
Systems-Based Practice	Develop some understanding of how the medical system affects how the care was managed	Global Faculty Assessment

Physical Diagnosis Lecture Series

	PGY 1, 2, and 3 educational objectives	Assessment Method
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge	1) Learn physical diagnosis techniques 2) Understand the limitations of the physical exam	Test toward the end of the G3 year
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	Attendance	Attendance
Systems-Based Practice

Professionalism conference series

	PGY 1 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge	Understand the concepts and expectations of professionalism	Global Faculty Assessment
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	Attendance	Attendance
Systems-Based Practice

Psychiatry Case Conference

	PGY 1, 2 and 3 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care	1) Learn about the presentation of psychiatric illness and understand the psychiatric and medical differential of the case being presented 2) Learn the method of making a psychiatric diagnosis 3) To learn and better understand the treatment decisions	Global Faculty Assessment
Medical Knowledge	To learn about a variety of psychiatric disorders	Global Faculty Assessment
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	1) Attendance 2) Respectful discussion of case relative to the patient and the care providers	1) Attendance 2) Global Faculty Assessment
Systems-Based Practice	Develop some understanding of how the medical system affects how the care was managed

Real World Conference Series

	PGY 3 and sometimes PGY 2 educational objectives	Assessment method
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge	1) Knowledge of medical legal issues 2) Understanding coding for physician billing
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism	Attendance
Systems-Based Practice	1) Understanding some methods to evaluate general internal medicine practice opportunities