Naeger David M, Straus Christopher M, Phelps Andrew, Courtier Jesse, Webb Emily M
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, 505 Parnassus Ave, M-391, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628.
Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Acad Radiol. 2014 Jul;21(7):879-87. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.01.024. Epub 2014 Apr 18.
Modern radiology clerkships require a rigorous, in-depth curriculum usually involving a variety of educational activities. With increasingly constrained faculty time and departmental resources, finding activities that are easy to implement and of high educational value can be a challenge.
We introduced a novel educational activity to our radiology clerkship in which students created independent learning modules (ILMs) that were reviewed by their classmates. Feedback surveys were used to assess the activity and guide a revision to the program. Feedback surveys after the revision were used to assess the overall perceived value of the program.
Twenty-seven students in two successive sessions of our elective radiology clerkship completed the ILM activity and provided feedback. Sixty-four students in five subsequent sessions completed a modified version of the activity and provided feedback. Students in this final group rated the activity's educational value at 8.3/10, with most describing both the creation and reviewing of the ILMs as similarly or more educationally valuable than lectures (41 of 64 [64%], 48 of 64 [75%], respectively). Students indicated the target ILM length of 15 minutes was "about right" (61 of 64 [95%]), and that the overall proportion of the course dedicated to the ILM activity was appropriate (49 of 64 [77%]).
A novel student-created ILM activity was highly reviewed by radiology elective students, both with regard to the educational value of creating and taking the ILMs. Clerkship directors wishing to supplement their curricula with an easy-to-implement high-value activity may consider adding a student-created ILM assignment.
现代放射科实习需要严格、深入的课程体系，通常涉及多种教育活动。随着教师时间和部门资源日益受限，寻找易于实施且具有高教育价值的活动可能具有挑战性。
我们在放射科实习中引入了一项新颖的教育活动，即学生创建独立学习模块（ILM），并由同学进行评审。通过反馈调查来评估该活动，并指导对该项目进行修订。修订后的反馈调查用于评估该项目的整体感知价值。
我们选修放射科实习连续两届的27名学生完成了ILM活动并提供了反馈。随后五届的64名学生完成了该活动的修改版本并提供了反馈。最后一组学生对该活动的教育价值评分为8.3分（满分10分），大多数学生认为创建和评审ILM与讲座具有相似或更高的教育价值（分别为64人中的41人[64%]和64人中的48人[75%]）。学生表示，ILM的目标时长15分钟“大致合适”（64人中的61人[95%]），且课程中专门用于ILM活动的总体比例是合适的（64人中的49人[77%]）。
放射科选修学生对一项新颖的学生创建的ILM活动评价很高，无论是在创建和参与ILM的教育价值方面。希望用一项易于实施的高价值活动来补充其课程的实习主任们可以考虑增加一项学生创建的ILM作业。
