To incorporate meaningful Interprofessional Education (IPE) into a core didactic oncology course by bringing into the classroom a series of cancer specialist physicians, from around the United States, who instructed from and discussed their own clinical trials.
The website tutorial [ 15] provides the core didactic portion for the rotation.
On Day 1, each participant provided demographic data (age, gender, and intended specialty), followed by a knowledge pre-test comprised of multiple choice single answer questions about the core didactic topics (shock, acute abdomen, dyspnea, trauma, chest pain, EKG interpretation, and pain management).
◦ 0 to 4 h of core curriculum didactic lectures, ◦ 0 to 5 h of one-on-one tutorials, ◦ 0 to 4 h of interactive conferences, and.
In a recent survey of ECG teaching programmes of cardiology trainees [12], most programmes reported spending a total of 11 total hours per month divided among four specific areas: ◦ 0 to 4 h of core curriculum didactic lectures, ◦ 0 to 5 h of one-on-one tutorials, ◦ 0 to 4 h of interactive conferences, and ◦ 0 to 2 h of board review conferences.
The core curriculum didactic information is presented in outline format in the training manual and proved difficult for the trainees to assimilate.
Programs must propose to use a didactic core curriculum which is presented to all Clinical Research Scholars, such as those developed by the K30 program or the NIH Roadmap Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program as well as courses in environmental sciences (toxicology, environmental medicine, environmental physiology, etc).
Core concepts, presented in didactic sessions, can then be reinforced, and skills practiced, during residents' routine clinical rotations (inpatient medicine rotations, continuity clinics, emergency department, and intensive care unit rotations), complementing rather than replacing current curricular components, and delivered over the three years of training.
The framework of the RCB program was guided by research evidence that training of clinicians as researchers require didactic training in core topics and clinical research methods [ 20, 57, 58] supported by an enhancing environment of collaborations [ 31, 59] and appropriate mentorship [ 26, 27, 38].
The 96-h didactic program focused on core EM competencies and included lectures (76 h; Table 1) supplemented by a variety of other teaching modalities.
We hypothesized that a new curriculum with core learning objectives and student oriented didactic sessions would increase learning and satisfaction compared to a traditional clerkship.
