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Return on Investment from Simulation-Based Mastery Learning
This chapter presents a business case for simulation-based mastery learning (SBML). SBML projects in medical education often yield downstream return on investment (ROI) which can be calculated using the Philli...
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Mastery Learning of Bedside Procedural Skills
Healthcare providers demonstrate wide variability in their skill at performing medical procedures safely. Objective measures of clinical skills are rarely used in making high-stakes personnel decisions. Hospit...
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Mastery Learning: Opportunities and Challenges
This concluding chapter of Mastery Learning in Health Professions Education addresses two mastery learning centers of interest—opportunities and challenges. Six opportunities are discussed: (a) expand mastery lea...
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Clinical Education: Origins and Outcomes
This opening chapter is an indictment of traditional clinical education in the health professions. Traditional clinical education in the health professions is not effective to achieve goals of skill acquisitio...
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Implementing and Managing a Mastery Learning Program
A rigorous education intervention cannot succeed without well-planned implementation and careful ongoing management. Specific steps needed to achieve education and translational science goals include (a) plann...
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Translational Science and Healthcare Quality and Safety Improvement from Mastery Learning
Mastery learning contributes to translational science (TS) in the health professions not only when learning outcomes are measured in educational settings (T1) but also when outcomes are measured as “downstream...
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Educational Policy Consequences from Mastery Learning
This chapter addresses the key education policy consequences that derive from implementation and management of mastery learning programs in the health professions. The chapter begins with framing statements ab...
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Standard Setting for Mastery Learning
Medical education has gradually shifted toward a competency-based approach over the past decade. To comply with expectations of accrediting bodies, medical educators have been asked to demonstrate that graduat...
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Open AccessAn institution-wide approach to submission, review, and funding of simulation-based curricula
This article describes the development, implementation, and modification of an institutional process to evaluate and fund graduate medical education simulation curricula. The goals of this activity were to (a)...
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Use of a Chief Resident Retreat to Develop Key Leadership Skills
Chief residents (CRs) are selected based on interpersonal skills, medical knowledge, and clinical performance; however, they must adapt to their leadership role by taking on administrative tasks, resolving con...
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Erratum to: Use of a Simulation-Based Capstone Course to Teach and Assess Entrustable Professional Activities to Graduating Medical Students
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Use of a Simulation-Based Capstone Course to Teach and Assess Entrustable Professional Activities to Graduating Medical Students
A 3-day simulation-based capstone course was developed and pilot tested for a cohort of graduating medical students to assess their readiness for residency. The intervention taught and assessed individual perf...
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Use of 3D Printing for Medical Education Models in Transplantation Medicine: a Critical Review
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a process where a physical object is created from a three-dimensional computer model through successive material layering. 3D printing is used in many industries to design an...
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Open AccessUse of a national continuing medical education meeting to provide simulation-based training in temporary hemodialysis catheter insertion skills: a pre-test post-test study
Simulation-based-mastery-learning (SBML) is an effective method to train nephrology fellows to competently insert temporary, non-tunneled hemodialysis catheters (NTHCs). Previous studies of SBML for NTHC-inser...
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Impact of Cardiac Physical Examination Faculty Development on Medical Student Performance: A Randomized Trial
Cardiac physical examination skills are often deficient in trainees and faculty members. Although recommended, the impact of cardiac physical examination faculty development on “downstream” trainee skills is u...
