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. 2023 Sep 18:10:1152892.
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1152892. eCollection 2023.

Experience of emergency medicine residents toward an implemented modified teaching approach

Kholoud Abdullah Babkair  1   2   3 , Sami Al-Nasser  4   5   6 , Abdullah Alzahem  4   5   6
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Experience of emergency medicine residents toward an implemented modified teaching approach

Kholoud Abdullah Babkair et al. Front Med (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Lecturing has always been one of the traditional instructional methods in medical education. It is cost-effective, especially when it comes to conveying a large amount of information to many students at once. However, disadvantages are plenteous, one of which is its passive way of knowledge delivery and learning. Active learning, on the contrary, has better students' engagement and longer retention, and it results in better students' achievement. The emergency medicine residency training program at KAMC-Jeddah has modified the educational activity to become more aligned with the end-of-year assessment in the form of active learning. This study aimed to explore the experience of the residents regarding the implementation of the new educational approach. An exploratory-qualitative study utilizing constructive grounded theory was conducted, collecting our data through an in-depth 1:1 interview using semi-structured open-ended questions. Purposeful sampling was used, and saturation was reached after interviewing 24 residents. The general perception of residents toward the new teaching modes slightly varied, highlighting the positivity of the new educational environment, the desired impact on their learning, the challenges they encountered, and finally their high satisfaction level and support for this new experience. It was asserted that such experience could be permanently implemented to increase the efficacy of teaching and learning.

Keywords: active learning; emergency medicine; group based learning; inquiry-based learning; residency education; small group discussion.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Illustrative thematic analysis map.
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Sub-thematic analysis of Theme 1. Modes of teaching delivered to the residents.
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Sub-thematic analysis of Theme 2. Residents' point of view regarding the new learning environment.
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Sub-thematic analysis of Theme 3. Impact of the modified educational approach on different learning and social aspects as mentioned by residents.
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Sub-thematic analysis of Theme 4. Challenges toward the modified educational approach as perceived by residents.
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