Creating a handoff curriculum
Residency Program Connection, June 1, 2010
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Connection!
Few resources exist to guide faculty members how to teach residents to give effective handoffs. It’s often up to program leaders and faculty members to develop their own handoff teaching tools.
The internal medicine residency program at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh did just that. In a study published in the April issue of Academic Medicine, the authors describe the steps they took to create a handoff curriculum. The steps included:
- Creating and distributing a survey to residents asking about current sign-out practices
- Directly observing and evaluating interns’ verbal handoffs
- Assessing interns’ sign-out sheets and comparing the sheets with patient records to verify accuracy
Based on this data, the authors created new interactive didactic sessions that focused on resident and system problems and highlighted the importance of handoffs. The authors also gave examples of good and poor handoffs and asked residents to practice handoffs in small group exercises.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Connection!
Related Products
-
Disruptive Residents:
This training video teaches how to prevent costly lawsuits and workplace tension while illustrating the importance of...
-
Residency Program Director's Handbook
The Residency Program Director's Handbook book and CD-ROM set provides a succinct guide that program directors can easily...
-
Ethics for Residents: A Training Tool to Build Confidence and Competency
Ethics for Residents:A Training Tool to Build Confidence and Competency is a training video that provides the perfect...
-
The Professionalism and Interpersonal and Communication Skills Competencies:
Learn to incorporate teaching and assessing professionalism and interpersonal and communication skills into your program's...
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q&A: Coding for dry skin due to cold weather
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Privacy, security concerns high in HIEs
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- Q&A: Coding for sepsis when other conditions are present
- HIPAA Q&A: TPO disclosures to a business associate
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Q&A: Coding for dry skin due to cold weather
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Don't let these sentinel events trigger falsely
- Searched