They reflected on how their thoughts about their roles and identities as medical teachers had been shaped after being facilitators. Few teachers commented about the effectiveness of using this strategy, but some expected changes in medical student thinking or behaviour as a consequence of this exercise. This also affected the group dynamic in general.” (T23), “Conflict between students in the group is my concern. 2) Learning experiences included not only biomedical content but also focused on other areas of medical education such as professionalism, ethics, and communication skills. “We have become dehumanised after years of practice. 1996;4(1):27–30. He died during the night shift. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Third year medical students at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. We always have a mix of good students in every class. Students were able to submit these assignments at any point during their rotation through a platform available on their smartphone or computer. Permission to conduct this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. Our study has some important limitations. Taylor is associate professor of family medicine and director of clinical curriculum, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.Dr. Many teachers in our study raised concerns over the skills needed for facilitating reflection, especially managing the tension between preserving confidentiality and maintaining engagement, developing a group dynamic that encourages students to participate, and establishing a balanced role between facilitation and teaching. Teachers reported that the activity enhanced personal and professional fulfillment and renewed their enthusiasm. “….They are able to get new and appropriate perspectives that come from gathering and analyzing scattered ideas and thoughts.” (T10). For the most part of writing, some of you are already familiar about application writing and summary writing. Article 14b. All data was kept confidential and was accessible only to the principal investigator (KS). Workshops have been run to introduce facilitation of reflection to teachers in other fields but the impact of this has yet to be assessed. A faculty development programme would have made them capable of exploring these issues rather than simply pointing out possible misdeeds. It allowed them to have the time and opportunity to learn about these aspects with a deeper degree of understanding. Mamede S, van Gog T, Sampaio AM, de Faria RM, Maria JP, Schmidt HG. “Through this ‘compulsory’ activity, students and teachers have a formal channel for interactive communication. Deeper interpersonal connection between students also occurred in the group process. Part of Following completion of the small group discussions, data was collected from the teachers through in-depth interviews. A qualitative descriptive study. Acad Med. The use of reflection in medical education: AMEE Guide No. The purpose of this study was to explore medical teachers’ views on the benefits of introducing a reflective writing exercise into an undergraduate medical curriculum, including their levels of satisfaction and their concerns. Additionally, we wish to thank Dr. Thunyarat Anothaisintawee for her helps in revising the discussion section of the study. Analyses of the teachers’ interviews revealed four major thematic categories and these are used as our main headings. The undergraduate medical curriculum in Thailand is a traditional 6-year course, the first 3 years being devoted to basic sciences and the last three to clinical sciences. An appropriate faculty development programme in these areas that allows teachers to explore these concerns and to develop coping strategies should also help them to feel comfortable with a more student-centred approach. Schaub-de Jong MA, Cohen-Schotanus J, Dekker H, Verkerk M. The role of peer meetings for professional development in health science education: a qualitative analysis of reflective essays. Med Educ. “It is good to share reflective essays among students. Many tweets included emotional reactions to specific experiences. It is very difficult to be neutral as a group facilitator.” (T17). Reflective writing (RW) curriculum initiatives to promote reflective capacity are proliferating within medical education. 2007;27(3):192–202. Several teachers were concerned that students had fabricated their stories. 2011;33(3):200–5. urprised me.” (T4). One approach to developing reflective skills in medical students is to use written reflection about personal significant events followed by small group discussion, in which teachers encourage students to focus on learning experiences drawn from their writing [4, 5]. She realized that she felt sorry but then she gradually understood the process that will go on. In the year before the launch of this activity, an orientation exercise was conducted to determine objectives and to develop instructions and conceptual descriptions of the learning process. California Privacy Statement, One example was a student who wrote about her first patient. Then these feelings faded, as they made themselves clear. Transcripts of these were studied, using thematic content analysis to identify emerging themes. At the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, individual clinical clerkships had become academically isolated and experiential student learning was largely haphazard and opportunistic. Although many factors influence the process of socialisation through which professional identity is formed, reflection in experiential learning plays an important part in shaping a physician’s professional identity [3]. Some reported feeling challenged by the need to help students to develop deeper learning and critical thinking from their experiences. I thought it was OK to talk about this particular issue. As the facilitator, I was struggling to control my feelings, from getting more emotionally involved in the story.” (T6), “I sometimes felt depressed or burdened by an overwhelming story. In contrast, given the importance of the role, studies describing facilitators’ perceptions and experiences are relatively scarce. Teachers perceived this activity as an attractive teaching and learning experience for them. Int J Med Educ. A few teachers expressed difficulty in dealing with student stories that might have been fabricated. Reflection and reflective practice in health professions education: a systematic review. 2009;31(8):685–95. Reflective writing for medical students Denise Parker Dilys Thorp . Rubric iterations were applied in successive development phases to Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University students' 2009 and 2010 RW narratives with determination of intraclass correlations (ICCs). 1996;16(6):419–26. Annoyance with typing errors and suspected fabrication of stories is extremely important as it may impact on the facilitator’s perception of his student’s honesty and diligence. Using reflection in teaching was not viewed as something new by some teachers and joining this activity affirmed or reinforced their view of its value in the undergraduate medical curriculum. We used a qualitative method to collect and collate the perceptions and experiences of teachers involved in introducing, implementing and facilitating a reflective writing activity as part of a new curriculum. Some teachers felt that some students had not put enough effort into their essays, their written work being poorly presented and incomplete. We don’t know how much students get from the activity. The range of teaching experience was between 1 and 30 years. It is the teachers’ role to discover and solve these problems. Acad Med. Sandars J. 2015;90(6):718–25. Most of our teachers did not have experience of reflective learning when they were medical students. Patient Educ Couns. Students were advised that the essay should consist of at least two pages and should be referenced where appropriate. Reflecting on reflections: enhancement of medical education curriculum with structured field notes and guided feedback. Insights gained from this study are relevant to faculty development and have influenced the training and support we give to our teachers. “One student said that if he hadn’t done this activity he wouldn’t have had an opportunity to think about this experience or explore within himself what had happened during the past year. Joining this activity stimulated one instructor to implement more reflective activities within his department as a routine practice. “I would like to do it (reflection) more. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0624-2. A common concern among Thai novice facilitators was a feeling of insecurity about the teaching competencies necessary for the different content and approach required by facilitation. I also recognise that we should be approachable teachers, but students should not cross the line. Every Family Medicine teacher (n = 18) participated in our in-depth interviews. Students who care for older patients with chronic diseases should have an opportunity to reflect on their experiences. The novice facilitators felt that facilitated reflection was both valuable and appropriate for students. WL analysed the data and drafted the manuscript. The purpose of this study was to explore medical teachers’ views on the benefits of introducing a reflective writing exercise into an undergraduate medical curriculum, including their levels of satisfaction and their concerns. Teachers should help students to develop other competencies besides those required for biomedicine. Facilitating reflective small group discussion is seen as being more complex than other types of small group activity in medical education due to the nature of the shared content. In the group process, students not only questioned their own decisions but gauged what was right from other people’s perspectives. 2012;87(9):1185–90. Acad Med. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. This qualitative study was undertaken using in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Pee B, Woodman T, Fry H, Davenport ES. I have to read and analyse essays in order to help students both to get the most out of it and to gain a deeper learning experience.” (T26). Our new curriculum emphasises the importance of the systematic use of reflective learning, students being helped to use reflection to analyse their experiences, define underlying concepts and consider alternative ways of approaching problems. This will help teachers understand and give them specific advice.” (T6). BMJ. Oral health students' perceptions of clinical reflective learning--relevance to their development as evolving professionals. This is beyond my expectation that students usually learn only by rote learning.” (T20), “One student brought pillows and a blanket from his home to a patient. Abstract Background: The teaching of reflection and the use of reflective writing assignments is commonplace in medical school education. Lastly, the potential for interviewer bias might have influenced the views of participants during the interviews. No matters how their attitudes are at the baseline, I think their attitudes are not changed. 2006;40(4):379–88. Cookies policy. Chirema KD. Dealing with their emotions during the sessions seemed to be a major concern for some, with some preferring to hide their feelings. PubMed Google Scholar. BMC Med Educ 16, 102 (2016). The loss of my elderly patient: Interactive reflective writing to support medical students rites of passage. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. “Tweet”-Format Writing Is an Effective Tool for Medical Student Reflection. A previous systematic review addressed the limited outcome from implementing reflective activity in undergraduate medical curricula [24]. statement and Fifty-six medical students were included in this study. Explicit objectives and instructions about key aspects of reflection were given, together with an example of a reflective essay. They also recognized the need to manage conflict between students, to encourage quiet students to talk and to handle unexpected situations. The process was repeated several times to develop interpretation of the interviews and to determine relationships within the results. Now his friends can know him better.” (T24). We don’t know if our facilitation skill is effective enough to help the student to learn critically from his experience.” (T23). “A student with a reputation for being flippant surprised his classmates with his deep thoughts and feelings. Dissemination of our findings within the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital has resulted in other departments showing an interest in formally adopting our strategy. There are no other formal channels that allow students to talk with us about their first clinical year experiences. KS initiated the study, collected, analysed data, drafted and revised the manuscript. ICC ranged from 0.376 to 0.748 for datasets and rater combinations and was 0.632 for the final REFLECT iteration analysis. 2009;9(3):166–75. The use of reflective writing in exploring student experiences in surgery. However, the use of reflection was not compulsory and learning outcomes were not evaluated. Muir F. The understanding and experience of students, tutors and educators regarding reflection in medical education: a qualitative study. The effects of structured reflection on future diagnosis of the same and novel diseases. SH analysed the data. Abstract Background: The teaching of reflection and the use of reflective writing assignments is commonplace in medical school education. Facilitators were given a remit to highlight the affective domains of the students’ experiences and to encourage critical thinking in a collaborative learning environment. “The activity led the students to a heightened awareness of ethics, professionalism, communication and interpersonal issues. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Students can organize thoughts and formulate systematic personal ideas that differ from grumbling about bad events. Schaub-de Jong MA, Schonrock-Adema J, Dekker H, Verkerk M, Cohen-Schotanus J. OpenUrl ↵ Sandars J. Finally he was able to actually realise how and why he feels proud that patients he has taken care of have become better.” (T12). Here, we present a novel, tweet-style reflective writing assignment to better engage the unique skill set of today’s medical students. I felt that facilitating those students was very difficult.” (T10). In the morning she came to see him but he wasn’t there anymore. Tsang AK, Walsh LJ. Each tweet was analyzed by 2 individuals to ensure intercoder reliability. “I admire these students. This is particularly important for medical practitioners to maintain and improve their standard of practice. 2009;14(4):503–13. We attempted to reduce this possibility by training the interviewers, by limiting their dialogue to questions and clarifications, and by instructing them to avoid expressing opinions. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. Our study was devised to explore the impact of this new exercise upon the facilitators. I don’t know, when we sit down and write, we have to conceptualize and think back and forth to a deeper level I would say. J Surg Educ. Hedy S. Wald;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Julie Scott Taylor;David Anthony;Shmuel P. Reis; Dr. Wald is clinical associate professor of family medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.Dr. Using tweet-style reflective writing, students identified and reacted to multiple salient experiences from their surgical clerkship. Most teachers remarked that this activity was interesting as well as being valuable and appropriate for students in the following two areas. The overload and demanding routine activities make us become less sensitive to everything. Mann K, Gordon J, MacLeod A. Begin the BEGAN (The Brown Educational Guide to the Analysis of Narrative) - a framework for enhancing educational impact of faculty feedback to students' reflective writing. One hundred and sixty-eight tweets were collected and coded. Google Scholar. Reviewing the terms reflection, reflective practice, and reflective writing historically and across disciplines is a daunting and unwieldy task. A qualitative approach was employed using semi-structured interviews. ↵ Mann K, Gordon J, Macleod A. Anthony is assistant professor of family medicine and director of medical student education, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.Dr. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. 2010;32(4):e178–84. There are many existing ways on how one could be an effective writer. Each was interviewed by two experienced Family Medicine teachers trained to conduct in-depth interviewing. 2011;45(2):155–65. Med Teach. “I am afraid of an unexpected situation. To be or not to be a facilitator of reflective learning for medical students? Reading these stories has helped me to be more aware of the patient’s distress and able to see the relationship between professionalism and compassion. Accid Emerg Nurs. © 2020 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Introducing reflective writing to a medical curriculum requires the acceptance and participation of teachers. 2009;14(4):595–621. This reinforces students’ attitudes in these areas. “Some students weren’t motivated by this activity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first research in medical education to comprehensively address these issues. Reflective writing in medical education Philip SongJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA; PHILIP SONG, MD, MPH, was one of Dr. Stewart's MD students and this article is the result of their relationship. s I’m not sure how good I was as a facilitator. His courage We also identified experiences perceived by the teachers as rewarding. In turn this may affect the facilitator’s interpretation of the student’s reflection and limit the depth of enquiry around his reported experiences. Fostering and Evaluating Reflective Capacity in Medical Education: Developing the REFLECT Rubric for Assessing Reflective Writing. I didn’t know how to handle this.” (T9), “I nearly cried after I had listened to the story. Wald HS, Reis SP, Monroe AD, Borkan JM. “I’m not sure the students can practice in the way they told me in the class. She met and talked to him just for a few days, then the patient died. (Perhaps) they just tried to make up a nice story. Finally, teachers should be given ongoing support, including the provision of feedback on individual performance. During the past few years the development of professional identity has been a major focus of medical education, emphasising the multifaceted and individualised process through which students develop into physicians [1, 2]. Addressing reflective learning within a medical curriculum has a substantial impact on teachers both in terms of time commitment and the requirement to master important new skills [9]. In response to the question, “Why did you not give the full score when you rated your satisfaction with using reflective writing in the new curriculum,” teachers reported common concerns that could be divided into four categories. However, these writing assignments can pose a challenge to millennial medical students who are more likely to assimilate knowledge through the use of innovative technology and who prefer their data in a concise format. 87(1):41-50, JANUARY 2012. Most agreed that this new activity was beneficial to students and that they could play a role in fostering the students’ professional and personal development in areas such as communication, ethics, and professionalism. Acad Med. Vivekananda-Schmidt P, Marshall M, Stark P, McKendree J, Sandars J, Smithson S. Lessons from medical students' perceptions of learning reflective skills: a multi-institutional study. Following a comprehensive search and analysis of the literature, the authors developed an analytic rubric through repeated iterative cycles of development, including empiric testing and determination of interrater reliability, reevaluation and refinement, and redesign. Although this activity received high student satisfaction, introducing the exercise as a regular feature of our curriculum would impact on teachers due to the need for new skills and demands on their time. During the first 4 blocks of the 2016-2017 academic year, 56 students rotated through the third year surgical clerkship. Slow medical education borrows from other “slow” movements by offering a complementary orientation to medical education that emphasizes the value of slow and thoughtful reflection and interaction in medical education and clinical care. Adv Health Sci Edic Theory Pract 2007; 14: 595-621. © 2018 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Using reflection in medicine is a bridge for the gap between these two. 2010;80(2):253–9. volume 16, Article number: 102 (2016) Med Educ. Teachers should be aware that this could arise from a lack of student understanding of the objectives of the activity, an inability to identify significant problems, or anxiety about achieving a particular grade. Results from this will help in the formulation of a conceptual framework for faculty development, including a strategy for instructor engagement and participation. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0624-2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0624-2. Students reflected on the following experiences: patient interaction (54%), surgical education (34%), physician/resident interaction (27%), and career decisions (11%). “Some students examined the guilt and regrets that occur in this year in order to successfully resolve their past conflicts and to feel better. Themes from within these categories are presented with illustrative quotations from the teachers, translated from the Thai language. Most teachers regarded this activity as being beneficial to them, to student learning, and to the curriculum. We also investigated effects on the teachers’ personal and professional development arising from their roles as novice facilitators. All participants signed informed consent forms. The students are able to express their perceptions and feelings. But when I talked about it with medical students they unexpectedly burst into tears. This is congruent with a study of reflective sessions in an undergraduate nursing curriculum which addressed a lack of appropriate skills for being a preceptor [23]. When I first used this method I felt very enthusiastic. The reason for this is that we don’t know what will happen to them in the future and the social trend inclines towards materialism.” (T2), “I expected the activity to change students into better students or at least to change their attitudes but I don’t think this activity could have an impact on students’ attitudes. This preparatory work was undertaken by Family Medicine teachers with a medical education background and an interest in reflective practice and mentoring. Or on home visits, if students come across any problem they should have a place to express their feelings or speak out about the problem. Good medical practice. Several studies report attempts to incorporate reflection into a medical curriculum [5, 10–12], the impact of reflection on medical students’ perceptions [13–17] and the educational features that promote the development of reflective practice [4, 18]. In addition to that, there are also a lot of ways on how one could express an opinion through writing. It should be incorporated in most activities. Both teachers and students viewed the reflective activity as worthwhile, justifying its addition to other courses in our setting. Alan Dellow. “I’m not sure I can do it right for the students to get the maximum benefit from this activity. For example, students might try to avoid discussion of upsetting incidents or events that might reflect negatively on them. Further research in our setting should, therefore, address the effects of this activity on short term student outcomes, such as self-awareness or professional thinking. Practice-based learning: views on the development of a reflective learning tool. Terms and Conditions, In addition, we found interesting benefits of this activity for the teachers. From our initial search, we yielded a total of 1,032 studies, of which only 8 fit our inclusion criteria. Academic Medicine. The data, although limited, did show improvements in students’ levels of empathy and respect for patients GMC, 2006. Driessen E, van Tartwijk J, Dornan T. The self critical doctor: helping students become more reflective. 2014;89(1):121–7. Med Teach. Correspondence to RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Reflective writing and its impact on empathy in medical education: systematic review Isabel Chen1,2, Connor Forbes 1* 1University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, Canada; 2Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Abstract Purpose: Medical schools are increasingly aware of the ways in which physician empathy can have a profound impact on patients’ … Nurse Educ Today. 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