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Comparative Study
. 2019 Dec 13:15:10860.
doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10860.

Building a Boot Camp: Pediatric Residency Preparatory Course Design Workshop and Tool Kit

Amanda Hartke  1 , Erin Pete Devon  2 , Rebekah Burns  3 , Molly Rideout  4
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Comparative Study

Building a Boot Camp: Pediatric Residency Preparatory Course Design Workshop and Tool Kit

Amanda Hartke et al. MedEdPORTAL. .

Abstract

Introduction: Although many medical schools are adding residency preparatory courses or boot camps to their curricula, there is little published guidance for faculty tasked with designing them. We developed a workshop and accompanying boot camp course design tool kit to assist faculty in creating a pediatric boot camp course following the initial steps of Kern's framework for curriculum development.

Methods: Learners participated in a 2-hour workshop incorporating short didactics, guided independent reflection, and group discussions. Workshop facilitators guided faculty through the tool kit materials including a literature overview, a needs assessment worksheet, session prioritization and schedule planning worksheets, a module design worksheet, and implementation strategies.

Results: Twenty-seven attendees at a national meeting of undergraduate pediatric educators participated in the workshop. Feedback was solicited via an anonymous electronic survey (41% completion rate), which indicated that attendees' self-assessed confidence significantly increased for each component of the tool kit. For the five tool kit components surveyed, average confidence increased 26% (range: 17.5%-37.1%) after completing the workshop. All respondents also indicated that the tool kit would be moderately helpful to very helpful as a stand-alone resource for independent faculty use, corresponding to a 3.57 out of 5 weighted average for this Likert-scale question.

Discussion: We developed a pediatric boot camp course design workshop and tool kit to assist faculty in developing pediatric boot camps. Initial implementation was through a workshop, but the resource could be used individually and also adapted for use by other specialties.

Keywords: Boot Camp; Capstone Course; Curriculum Development; Editor's Choice; Faculty Development; Pediatrics; Residency Preparatory Course; Tool Kit.

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