Virtual Community Health Workers: Outreach Calls During COVID-19

The “Clinical Experience” program at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, established in 2017, provides pre-clerkship students with an opportunity to identify and address patients’ needs for social determinants of health (SDoH). The COVID-19 pandemic led to a suspension of the student program in the clinical environment, but the CHWs continued to address patients’ social needs from a remote setting. In the absence of established best practices regarding patient outreach calls from a remote setting, we sought to develop an effective workflow that would mask the CHWs’ personal cell phones while leading to fewer “unable to reach” scenarios and improved case resolution rates

JeffMD Update

Update on curriculum redesign for the Sidney Kimmel Medical School at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA. Presentation: 11:0

Training EMR in a Case-based Curriculum

Introduction: The Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) is creating a new medical curriculum (JeffMD), in which more learning will take place in small groups and individual activities. In their small groups, students will focus on core case studies that will become increasingly complex, each building on the prior phase of the curriculum

Training EMR in Case-Based Curriculum

Introduction: The Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) is creating a new medical curriculum (JeffMD), in which more learning will take place in small groups and individual activities. In their small groups, students will focus on core case studies that will become increasingly complex, each building on the prior phase of the curriculum.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medposters/1001/thumbnail.jp

Intolerance of Uncertainty and Self-Compassion in Medical Students: Is There a Relationship and Why Should We Care?

Managing the uncertainty of clinical practice represents a significant source of stress for clinicians, including medical students transitioning into the clinical workplace. Self-compassion, a strategy to better cope with stress and burnout, may represent a skill that can be leveraged to better prepare learners for the uncertainty inherent in clinical practice. A negative correlation between intolerance of uncertainty and self-compassion has been demonstrated in undergraduate students and in the general population. An examination of this relationship in medical students may help inform future curricular development for addressing burnout in undergraduate medical education. We electronically administered the Intolerance of Uncertainty Short Scale and the Self-Compassion Short Form to 273 third-year medical students from a single institution and analyzed data via regression. A significant negative correlation was found between intolerance of uncertainty and self-compassion (p \u3c 0.0001). Students with higher levels of self-compassion showed lower levels of intolerance of uncertainty. This is consistent with findings in other populations. Our findings offer a starting point for designing training experiences that strengthen student self-compassion to enhance their ability to reconcile the uncertainty they will encounter in clinical practice