About

The Study

The oral case presentation plays a critical role in patient care and in the communication between learners, educators and other healthcare team members but has not been well studied in the emergency setting.

The objectives of this study are:

1) to develop, implement and evaluate a curriculum to enhance communication skills of medical students and transition-to-discipline residents (within and outside emergency medicine specialty) as they deliver oral case presentations in the emergency medicine setting (EM-OCP)

2) to develop a competency-based assessment tool to formally evaluate the EM-OCP competency of medical students as well as transition-to-discipline residents. The study design involves the development of the novel curriculum and assessment tool based on the results of a national survey and focus groups (at the University of Manitoba), followed by an evaluation of the effectiveness of the curriculum on the learner’s ability to deliver an EM-OCP.