Theme
Portfolios and ePortfolios
Category
Portfolios
INSTITUTION
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Anesthesiology residents felt that having a short, specific learning experience helped prepare them for their first narrative reflection assignment. The workshop activity contextualised the background information on the portfolio and reflective practice within the residents’ everyday practice.
A workshop and video exercise was created to prepare residents in an Anesthesia program for the reflective learning section of their Professionalism portfolio. The reflective piece included a written narrative based on a personal experience followed by discussion of the narrative with a delegated faculty Anesthesiologist. The focus of the workshop was on teaching the verbal reflective process.
Short, focussed interactive learning experiences can be incorporated into existing academic sessions to help residents develop and contextualize skills navigating the continuum of medical education and practice.
All Postgraduate Year 1-4 Anesthesia residents attended an academic half-day session to learn the process of reflection. An education specialist guided the learning process. A group discussion utilizing questions specifically developed to facilitate reflective learning followed a video of an emotionally charged scene in the Emergency Room. This teaching session was to prepare residents for reflection on their own and/or others professional behavior. Students were surveyed at the end of the session to determine the effectiveness of the learning activity. The survey used both a 10-point Likert-type scale to rate a list of items and several open-ended questions.
ER video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsvxAFvSgTI&NR=1
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the residents of the Memorial University Anesthesia Residency Program for their assistance in the development of the portfolios, for their participation in the workshop and subsequent reflective narrative activity of the professionalism portfolio.