Writing to learn on the wards: scholarly blog posts by medical students and housestaff at a teaching hospital

Autor: Farrin A. Manian, Felicia Hsu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Medical Education Online, Vol 24, Iss 1 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1087-2981
10872981
DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2018.1565044
Popis: Background: Informative writing is a valuable tool for learning and fostering the scientific process. Pearls4Peers (P4P) is an educational open-access website dedicated to scholarly blog posts in hospital medicine based on questions raised during ward teaching rounds. A goal of P4P is to enhance the learning experience of medical students and housestaff (i.e., interns and upper-level residents) by inviting them to write blog posts for a worldwide audience. Objective: To describe our experience with inviting medical students and housestaff to contribute blog posts to a clinically oriented educational website with the aim of promoting concise evidence-based informative medical writing. Design: Medical students and housestaff assigned to the hospital ward team of an attending physician (FM) on the medical service were routinely invited to submit one or more posts or ‘pearls’ based on clinical questions raised during patient rounds. Selected features of submissions during the first 2 years of P4P (27 June 2015 through 26 June 2017) were then retrospectively reviewed and analyzed. Results: Of 156 pearls posted during the study period, 25 (16%) were contributed by medical students and 16 (10.3%) by housestaff. Medical students were significantly more likely to contribute than housestaff (19[70.4%] vs. 11 (9.6%], p
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