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Teaching the Teacher: Faculty Development for VA Clinician Educators (TTT)

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TTT is a discussion-based series for teaching physicians on inpatient wards at VA medical centers. We aim to augment teaching quality, efficiency, and confidence for VA clinician educators. We focus on high yield content based on a national needs assessment, and address topics such as understanding modern learners, utilizing technology to enhance teaching, providing high quality feedback, and incorporating evidence-based medicine into teaching practice.

We are excited to share this project with the greater VA education community, and are actively seeking to grow our team! Here's a list of our current facilitators:

Laura Caputo, Durham VAMC
Lily Huang, Durham VAMC
Cynthia Johnson, Durham VAMC
Julia Armendariz, Palo Alto VAMC
Katie Charles, Durham VAMC
Joel Boggan, Durham VAMC
Dinithi Iddawela, Mather VAMC

This innovation is replicating across multiple facilities as its impact continues to be validated. See more replicating innovations.

Origin:

September 2014, Durham VA Medical Center

Adoptions:

9 successful, 5 in-progress

Partners:

Diffusion of Excellence

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Hospital Medicine Inpatient Care
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Overview

Problem

Educating the next generation of health professionals is one of the four congressionally mandated statutory missions of the VA, but now more than ever before, the roles and responsibilities of the modern clinical educator are challenging and complex. Busy clinician educators are asked to juggle higher patient loads and more complex disease processes while s ... See more

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VA Hospitalist Access to Faculty Development: Only 27% (14/51) of respondents reported access to faculty development from their local VA institution.

VA Hospitalist Interest in Clinician Educator Faculty Development: 94% (49/52 ) of respondents expressed interest in VA specific faculty development

Solution

Teaching the Teacher is a high impact faculty development series developed to improve the rounding experiences of VA clinicians on inpatient teaching services. We prioritize discussion-based learning to share best teaching practices through the lens of VA clinical medicine, with the aim of augmenting teaching quality, efficiency, and confidence. Subject ma ... See more

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Teaching the Teacher Curriculum: Summary of topics discussed in this program, based on a national needs assessment

Results

Over 30 faculty members at the originating facility and >50 faculty members (and counting!) at outside institutions have participated in the Teaching the Teacher series. We are actively collecting post-series evaluation surveys from participants. Reflections on the quality of the series and self-reported changes in behavior have been overwhelmingly positive. ... See more

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To date, >95% of respondents said they would recommend this series to a colleague

Representative Quotes from Participants on their Perceptions of the Course

Self-Reported Changes in Participant Teaching Behaviors: As demonstrated, the goal of this program is for participants to walk away with confidence and skills that can be used on the wards in real time.

Diffusion tracker

Does not include Clinical Resource Hubs (CRH)

Statuses

CA: Palo Alto VA Medical Center (Palo Alto, California) CA: Sacramento VA Medical Center (Sacramento) CA: San Francisco VA Clinic (San Francisco Downtown) CA: West Los Angeles VA Medical Center (West Los Angeles)
  • Started adoption on 02/2022, ended on 03/2022.
NC: Durham VA Medical Center (Durham)
  • Started adoption on 06/2019, ended on 07/2019.
OH: Cincinnati VA Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  • Started adoption on 01/2022, ended on 02/2022.
VA: Henrico County VA Clinic (Henrico County) VA: Richmond VA Medical Center (Richmond, Virginia) WA: Seattle VA Medical Center (Seattle)
  • Started adoption on 02/2022, ended on 03/2022.

MD: Baltimore VA Medical Center (Baltimore)
  • Started adoption on 03/2022.
MO: St. Louis VA Medical Center-Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis Jefferson Barracks) OR: Portland VA Medical Center (Portland, Oregon)
  • Started adoption on 04/2022.
TX: Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans' Hospital (San Antonio, Texas) VT: White River Junction VA Medical Center (White River Junction)

There are no unsuccessful adoptions for this innovation.

Implementation

Timeline

  • 1-3 months
    Interested VAs need only reach out to Laura Caputo at laura.caputo@va.gov or laura.caputo@duke.edu to schedule this innovation at their institution. Individual sites will be catered to on a first come first serve basis and will be scheduled as soon as possible to meet their institution's needs.

Departments

  • Hospital medicine
  • Internal medicine

Core Resources

Resource type Resource description
PEOPLE
  • Lead clinical educator or administrator to coordinate scheduling
  • Clinical educators with an interest in participating
TOOLS
  • Zoom capabilities
  • Video conferencing capabilities

Optional Resources

Resource type Resource description
TOOLS
  • Zoom capabilities
  • Audio/visual capabilities

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Comment

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VA User (Nurse Simulation Instructor) posted

I am interested in partiipating in the next Teaching the Teacher: Faculty Development for VA Clinician Educators (TTT) course. Could you send me some information?

Sincerely,

Helen Mills (Helen.mills@va.gov)

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