Capacity Building To Inculcate Twelve-Roles Of Medical teacher Using Patient-Safety Theme

Background: Teacher’s role has evolved from a knowledge-transmitter to that of a learning-facilitator. To professionally develop postgraduate medical/dental trainees-as-teachers (PGTT) considering teaching as one of the exit-level outcomes of their Master’s program. A course was conducted on twelve-roles of medical teacher with patient-safety theme. This study was intended to explore the level of PGTT’s satisfaction regarding their roles developed in response to their engagement in course activities. Methods: In 2015, a one-week course, ‘Fundamentals of Health-Professions-Education (FHPE)’ was conducted for 25 PGTT, underpinned with adult learning principles in context of patient-safety theme for the development of twelve-roles of medical teacher. Variety of teaching approaches with formative and summative assessments were done to promote learning-by-doing (Kolb’s-theory). A self-administered cross-sectional questionnaire on a 5-point Likert scale was used with 29 questions on role of course facilitators, Course plan & conduct and Development of their own teaching skills. Satisfaction-level was expressed in the form of percentages. Results: All 25 PGTT responded on three major domains of the questionnaire. All (100%) agreed on the effectiveness of the roles of course facilitators and the course plan & conduct. Majority (96%) of them showed agreement on the improvement of their teaching skills developed during this course. Conclusion: The FHPE-course was found as a worthwhile opportunity for PGTT in acquiring the desired outcomes under-supervision and with respect to its future implications in their respective settings. Building capacity for scholarship of teaching & learning is a way forward to successful academic achievements. Key Words: Roles of medical teacher, patient-safety, post graduate students as teachers, capacity building, health professions education

Paediatric respiratory isolation: A challenge for a secondary care hospital! A service innovation project

Objective: The aim of this project was to broaden the secondary care hospital\u27s scope of services and provide safe, effective and quality care for the patient presenting with measles.Methods: Six Sigma DMAIC [define measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC)] methodology was used in this quality improvement project. The quality project was started in October 2015 using a Gantt chart quality tool.Results: The paediatric team with the support of administration of the hospital has established isolation rooms and devised a policy for the care and management of patient with airborne infection to avoid cross transmission. During six months period after establishment of isolation room there were sixty two suspected or confirmed measles cases who were admitted in our hospital, out of them only 4(6.4%) of patients were referred because of their sick condition and need of ventilator support. Further, the percentage of patient\u27s satisfaction level also improved from 60 to 80%.Conclusions: After this clinical service innovation, there was significant reduction in referrals of measles patients to another hospital and consequently there was an increase in the patient\u27s satisfaction