Senior-Readings

Senior Readings

The following is a collection of suggested readings that may augment your McMAP experience. They are best read before you complete the task. You should consider reading them either prior to or at the beginning of a given block.

Quality Decision Making

Senior Block Suggested Readings

Performance Improvement
Eva KW, Regehr G. Self-assessment in the health professions: a reformulation and research agenda. Acad Med. 2005 Oct;80(10 Suppl):S46-54.

Error Disclosure:

Mazor, K. M., Reed, G. W., Yood, R. A., Fischer, M. A., Baril, J., & Gurwitz, J. H. (2006). Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond?. Journal of general internal medicine, 21(7), 704-710.

Dartmouth Ethics Guide to Error Disclosure

Goldman, B. Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? [TEDtalks]

Teachable Moments

1) Smoking cessation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19543095

2) Smoking counselling in pts with Acute Respiratory Illness: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11162344

3) Half-life of EtOH counselling: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15664722

4) McBride et al., 2003 - Heuristic model for Teachable Moments: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/2/156.full.pdf+html

Leadership & Team Management

Senior Block Suggested Readings

None for this block.

Communication & Coordination

Senior Block Suggested Readings

Consultation

Apker, J., Mallak, LA & Gibson, SC (2007). Communicating in the “grey zone”: percpeptions about emergency physician hospitalist handoffs and patient safety. Academic Emergency Medicine, 14(10). 884-89.

Kessler, C. S., Chan, T., Loeb, J. M., & Malka, S. T. (2013). I’m clear, you’re clear, we’re all clear: Improving consultation communication skills in undergraduate medical education. Academic Medicine, 88(6), 753-758.

Breaking Bad News

Baile et al. (2000) SPIKES—A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News: Application to the Patient with Cancer [PMID: 10964998]

Benenson et al. (2003) Evaluation of Emergency Medicine Resident Death Notiﬁcation Skills by Direct Observation. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 10(3):219-223.

Sobczak 2013 The procedure for death notification — ”In Person, In Time…” Ann Int Ther [PMID: 24407903]

Critical Stress Incident Debriefing

Everly, G. S., & Boyle, S. H. (1999). Critical incident stress debriefing (CISD): A meta-analysis. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 3, 165–168. PMID 23586171

Sign out / Handover

Safer Signout: http://safersignout.com/what-makes-a-safer-sign-out/
SBAR Resources

Teaching & Scholarship

Senior Block Suggested Readings

Teachable Moments

1) Smoking cessation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19543095

2) Smoking counselling in pts with Acute Respiratory Illness: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11162344

3) Half-life of EtOH counselling: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15664722

4) McBride et al., 2003 - Heuristic model for Teachable Moments.