In August 2015 we wrote about Larry Greenblatt, MD, a clinician-educator in GIM, and Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, from Duke Geriatrics, and their work in Singapore for Duke-NUS.
Dr. Greenblatt recently forwarded a few photos from Singapore, reflective of the country's diverse culture, ethnicity, and religion. In this highlight for the DGIM Blog, he tells us more about their teaching activities. Together Larry and Mamata created a workshop called “Actively Engaging Learners". In this curriculum they trained senior faculty in several strategies, including:
- Communication goals that are behavioral
- Evaluation of learners at different levels of training
- Application and further development of the skills of learners using the RIME (Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator) framework
- Development of clinical reasoning skills in learners
Multiple roles for Duke-NUS
Larry and Mamata have several roles in Duke-NUS. They are providing training to a group of junior hospitalists and are helping to restructure the operations of the inpatient ward teams to improve the effectiveness of the teaching. In other projects, they are providing coaching on teaching skills to a diverse group of health professions who are in a one-year fellowship.
Mentoring
They also helped education-oriented residents across specialties to brainstorm about how their interests could be fostered systematically and their careers developed as educators in a system where there is no avenue for promotion for clinical or education efforts.
