Social media and medical professionalism
By promoting observation and feedback in multiple clinical encounters such as those available in the T-MEX, this work can facilitate learning by helping team members to compare and contrast differences in teamwork that may occur across different situations, and thus to come to a richer understanding of what is needed to perform well in this regard.
Abstract
intrinsic load. In other words, it is the self-effort engaged by learners to learn new information. It can be particularly challenging for learners to exert this form of effort in a manner that drives their learning efficiently because they are often highly uncertain of their roles as learners within the health care team. Principles that have been identified as optimising germane load include variability and self-explanation. By promoting observation and feedback in multiple clinical encounters such as those available in the T-MEX, we can facilitate learning by helping team members to compare and contrast differences in teamwork that may occur across different situations, and thus to come to a richer understanding of what is needed to perform well in this regard. Similarly, prompting learners to explicitly reflect on why their experiences may have occurred as they did creates opportunities for learners to better incorporate any feedback they might receive from observers with their own often implicit understanding of the variable situations they experience.