Case-Based Asynchronous Interactive Modules in Undergraduate Medical Education.

Undergraduate medical education traditionally consists of 2 years of lecture-based courses followed by 2 years of clinical clerkships. However, over the past couple decades, undergraduate medical education has been evolving toward non-lecture-based integrated curriculums, requiring a collaborative curriculum. Additionally, e-learning platforms have become efficacious and essential to delivering education asynchronously to students. At Thomas Jefferson University, the Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology departments collaborated to create a pilot series of case-based asynchronous interactive modules to teach gynecologic pathology in a clinical context, while interweaving other educational components, such as evidence-based medicine, clinical skills, and basic sciences. The case-based asynchronous interactive modules were given to third-year medical students during their obstetrics and gynecology clerkship. Students interpreted histologic and clinical images while being evaluated on clinical management skills, gynecologic diagnoses, general principles of population health and pathology. Sixty-eight students from 3 blocks completed a pre and posttest. All participants showed improvement in interpreting gynecologic pathology in routine clinical scenarios as well as improved case-based decision-making, with an average score increase by 5.7%. Learner feedback was positive, with suggestions to apply this method to other medical specialties, particularly radiology. Asynchronous interactive modules are an efficacious and popular method of pathology education

Giving and Receiving Feedback: Jefferson Grand Rounds

Objectives: Review best feedback practices from the literature Discuss common feedback pitfalls Practice giving feedbac

The History and Future of Medicine

Objectives To not sound too pompous To review parts of our shared history To discuss the issues we face today To make a plan about our future To ask the question: How do you want to shape the next generation

Does a Contraceptive Bridge Method Affect Rates of Postpartum IUD Placement in a Resident Urban Clinic?

Background Short interval pregnancies are associated with poor neonatal outcomes.1 The postpartum (PP) period is an ideal time for LARC prevention of short interval pregnancy.2 29% of patients at our clinic admitted not using contraception 4-6 months postpartum.