SAEM PULSE | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2022
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
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4 Tips to Set Junior Faculty Members Up for a Successful Shift With a Resident Physician By Shehzad Muhamed, MD Just one month ago, we welcomed our inaugural class of emergency medicine (EM) residents at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Each teaching shift brings excitement and apprehension as I transition into my new role as a junior faculty member and bear the responsibility of postgraduate training. Through trial and error over the past several weeks, I have found four specific behaviors that help me be a better educator. I implement these steps each shift and find them to be quite effective.
“Goal setting helps increase motivation, guide focus and direction, and increase productivity.” Give them a try and modify to a version that works for you.
1. Explain your workflow to the resident and describe how they best fit into it. From the time we start as interns, EM physicians spend countless hours
mastering our workflow. Should we see a new patient? Follow-up on labs? Re-evaluate an existing patient? Spend 30 seconds to fill in part of a patient’s chart? We try, try, and try again until we find the right formula that gets us through a busy shift with maximum efficiency. Suddenly, there’s an added
