July Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip The Objective Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE): Tips for Faculty Development Corinn Martineau, PharmD, BCACP, CDOE It is clear that faculty development is important to enhance clinical teaching skills, however there are few objective measures of the impact of faculty development on these skills. An Objective Structured Teaching…

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June Faculty Development Tip

Pronoun Visibility in Health Professions Education Brandy Brown, LCSW Program Manager, The Gender Clinic The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital   Learning Objectives: Understand the value of creating inclusive norms, by sharing pronouns, in medical education settings. Identify ways to professionally share pronouns in a medical education setting. Sharing pronouns in…

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October 2020 Faculty Development Tip: How to construct good multiple-choice test questions

MITE Monthly Tip October 2020 Eric Brown, MD How to construct good multiple-choice test questions: Assessment, or testing, is an important aspect of medical teaching and learning. When done well, testing helps learners meet curricular goals while communicating what the teacher views as important. Multiple choice questions (MCQ) remain a…

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April 2020 Faculty Development Tip: Trauma-Informed Approach in Medical Education Settings

Trauma-Informed Approach in Medical Education Settings Ruth Frydman, M.D. Psychological trauma is common. In the United States, 61 percent of men and 51 percent of women report exposure to at least one lifetime traumatic event, and 90 percent of clients in public behavioral health care settings have experienced trauma. 1SAMHSA…

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February 2020 Faculty Development-Teaching Emotional Resilience in Difficult Clinical Experiences

MITE Monthly Tip – Teaching Emotional Resilience in Difficult Clinical Experiences  Thomas Reynolds, DO Burnout is a common problem amongst medical professionals and trainees.  Medical education experts have been studying this problem and developing curricula to help teach faculty, residents, and students about promoting resilience and preventing burnout after a…

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Tips for Being a Mentee

Tips for Being a Mentee Rebecca Hutchinson, MD Many of us have benefited from excellent mentors who have given their time, expertise and guidance to help us develop to our fullest potential.  Please see earlier MITE tip (link here to July 2018 MITE tip) on characteristics of great mentors, which…

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Electronic Communication with Patients

Electronic Communication with Patients Annabelle Rae C. Norwood, MD Electronic communication has now become a routine part of clinical practice. A lot of non-urgent communication with patients and their providers now occur through on-line channels such as secure messaging and e-mails.  In particular, MaineHealth is highly encouraging patients to sign-up…

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Mastering Millennial Mentoring

MITE Monthly Tip: April 2019-Angela M.  Leclerc, PA-C Mastering Millennial Mentoring Generation gaps between teacher and learner are encountered every 10-20 years. Generations are shaped by unique historical circumstances.  Currently, millennials make up approximately 25 % of our workforce and this will increase to 40% and 75% of the workforce…

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A Compassionate Script

A Compassionate Script-Kathryn Brouillette, MD With stressors abounding of record-level hospital census, the opioid epidemic, flu season, the holiday rush and the day-to-day grind of showing up for work while also managing household IADLs, I hope to offer a little salve for burnout. It is simply compassion, the root meaning…

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