Teaching and Learning Activities in Critical Care: Resident’s Perspective in a Developing Country: OAJBS Publishers

Teaching and Learning Activities in Critical Care: Resident’s Perspective in a Developing Country by Ayesha Aleem Qureshi* in Open Access Journal of Biomedical Science (OAJBS)

Background: the need for critical care services has increased tremendously specially after the current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. It has flounced whole world, posing a high pressure on critical care unit due to large number of patients needing critical care. Although the resources are already reduced due to lack of awareness and less recognized fellowship units in critical care. The dire need has raised concerns over training of residents in critical care especially in Pakistan. The rationale of this study is to improve the training of critical care residents by focusing on the teaching and learning activities and behaviors of teaching physicians which greatly impact the residents in critical care departments. No studies addressing this area have been reported in Pakistan.

Method: The study was conducted in Public and Private sector Hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad Pakistan, over a period of ten months from May 2020 till February 2021. An online survey was developed based on a validated tool which was circulated to all residents in critical care all over the twin cities of Pakistan. A 33 items questionnaire was developed derived from prior studies. Internal medicine post graduate training and residents completed an online survey on google forms rating the importance of behaviors and teaching strategies of attending physicians in Critical Care Unit.

Results: A total of 173 (101 female, 72 male) residents responded to this study. The behaviors of attending physicians most commonly rated as “very important” to trainees (as quantified by the highest number of 5s on the Likert scale) were (1) Consultant shows enthusiasm for the topics discussed on rounds (2) Consultant share professional experience with the residents. (3) Consultant enjoys teaching residents (4) Consultant explains clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis in critically ill patients and (5) Consultant promotes interest in Research.

Conclusion: The results provide novel information to the teaching physicians since they have an immense impact on resident’s education. This study revealed that trait our residents valued most is that Consultant shows enthusiasm for the topics discussed on rounds the other studies have revealed that trainees most valued the ability to explain clinical reasoning and problem-solving approach which leads to differential diagnoses by Consultant whereas other international literature reported most valued behavior was sharing personal information with learners.
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