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Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Publishing a case report demonstrates scholarly productivity for trainees and clinician-educators.

Aim

To assess the learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.

Setting

Medical students, residents, fellows and clinician-educators attending a workshop.

Program description

Case report writing workshop conducted nine times at different venues.

Program evaluation

Before and after each workshop, participants self-rated their perceived competence to write a case report, likelihood of submitting a case report to a meeting or for publication in the next 6-12 months, and perceived career benefit of writing a case report (on a five-point Likert scale). The 214 participants were from 3 countries and 27 states or provinces; most participants were trainees (64.5 %). Self-rated competence for writing a case report improved from a mean of 2.5 to 3.5 (a 0.99 increase; 95% CI, 0.88-1.12, p < 0.001). The perceived likelihood of submitting a case report, and the perceived career benefit of writing one, also showed statistically significant improvements (p = 0.002, p = 0.001; respectively). Nine of 98 participants published a case report 16-41 months after workshop completion.

Discussion

The workshop increased participants' perception that they could present or publish a case report.

SUBMITTER: Sridhar AR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2642576 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.

Sridhar Arun R Mahankali AR Willett Lisa L LL Castiglioni Analia A Heudebert Gustavo G Landry Michael M Centor Robert M RM Estrada Carlos A CA

Journal of general internal medicine 20081218 3

<h4>Introduction</h4>Publishing a case report demonstrates scholarly productivity for trainees and clinician-educators.<h4>Aim</h4>To assess the learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.<h4>Setting</h4>Medical students, residents, fellows and clinician-educators attending a workshop.<h4>Program description</h4>Case report writing workshop conducted nine times at different venues.<h4>Program evaluation</h4>Before and after each workshop, participants self-rated their perceived compet ...[more]

PMID: 19104902

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Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.

Introduction

Aim

Setting

Program description

Program evaluation

Discussion

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Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.

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