How do Advanced Practice Providers fit into IPE at academic medical centers? Angela Leclerc, PA-C Does your service have one or more Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)? Chances are you do, or you will! Originally conceived in the 1960s to assist with the primary care shortage, APPs can be found in…
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Leveraging Kaizen to Achieve Continuous Improvement
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Leveraging Kaizen to Achieve Continuous Improvement Learning Objectives: Describe Kaizen and how it can help you execute improvement work Recognize the role that staff empowerment plays in sustaining improvement Too often in healthcare we make an improvement, only to see behaviors and performance revert back to pre-improvement levels as time…
December 2019 Faculty Development: “I heard it in a podcast” How to navigate learners’ use of non-traditional learning platforms
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Jason Hine, MD “I heard it in a podcast” How to navigate learners’ use of non-traditional learning platforms It is no secret that non-traditional learning platforms such as blogs and podcasts are becoming more popular among learners. This article will help guide you with a 3-step approach to the…
Do You Genuinely Understand the Problem You Are Trying to Solve? The Model for Improvement
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Do You Genuinely Understand the Problem You Are Trying to Solve? The Model for Improvement Mark G. Parker MD, Vice President, Quality and Safety, Maine Medical Center Learning objectives: Recognize early barriers that can prevent interprofessional teams from making sustainable improvement Gain insight into an established framework to organize and…
November 2019 Faculty Development: Case in Point: How to Write an Effective Case Report or Series
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Case in Point: How to Write an Effective Case Report or Series William J. Sauer, M.D. Case reports continue to play a critical role in the advancement of medicine, particularly with regard to new disease entities (e.g. AIDS and Kaposi Sarcoma), adverse reactions (e.g. thalidomide associated birth defects), as well…
Tips for Being a Mentee
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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…
Best Practices for Designing Continuing Interprofessional Education
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Best Practices for Designing Continuing Interprofessional Education Sue Rose, MPH Medical Education Population health changes have resulted in new public health challenges for our clinicians. Delivery systems attempting to meet the needs of acute and chronic care have become larger and more complex. There is a greater reliance on…
Electronic Communication with Patients
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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…
Mastering Millennial Mentoring
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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…
Encouraging Reflection to Deepen Learning and Combat Burnout
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Encouraging Reflection to Deepen Learning and Combat Burnout-Rebecca Hutchinson, MD Kolb describes 4 stages of experiential learning, the type of adult learning that forms the cornerstone of medical education.1,2 Although all of these steps are important, reflection is believed to be particularly important to create deep or lasting learning.3 Reflection…