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Michael J Breunig1,2,3,4,5,6,7, Andrew J Herber1,2,3,4,5,6,7, Sarah M Jenkins1,2,3,4,5,6,7
1Michael J. Breunig, PA-C, is a physician assistant for the Division of Hospital Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, and an assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to describe participant characteristics and effective teaching methods at a national continuing medical education (CME) conference on hospital medicine for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, participants provided demographic information and teaching effectiveness scores for each presentation. Associations between teaching effectiveness score and presentation characteristics were determined.
Results:
In total, 163 of 253 participants (64.4%) completed evaluations of 28 presentations. Many of the participants were younger than 50 years (69.0%), had practiced for fewer than 5 years (41.5%), and worked in nonacademic settings (76.7%). Teaching effectiveness scores were significantly associated with the use of clinical cases (perfect scores for 68.8% of presentations with clinical cases vs. 59.8% without; P = .04).
Conclusion:
Many PAs and NPs at an HM CME conference were early-career clinicians working in nonacademic settings. Presenters at CME conferences in hospital medicine should consider using clinical cases to improve their teaching effectiveness among PA and NP learners.
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