Lawrence Greenblatt, MD
Larry Greenblatt, MD, a clinician-educator in GIM, along with Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, from Duke Geriatrics, returned last week after 7 days providing instruction in teaching skills for faculty in Singapore for Duke-NUS. Their program is broad and intense.
At it’s core they follow the Stanford Clinical Teaching Workshop and the model of the “One Minute Preceptor”. Besides large group sessions, each faculty member receives direct evaluation of their teaching in the hospital setting, paired with a 1-on-1 coaching session. Continued mentoring is available via phone calls and email for those interested.
Besides the academic inspiration, both Greenblatt and Yanamadala enjoyed the immersion in this different clinical world. The setting is challenging with 25-35 patients per team, 7-8 residents, and up to 4 medical students. Patients speak many different languages and are housed in rooms of 6-10 individuals.
The future promises training in “Teaching EBM in Real Time”, Quality Improvement, and a tool developed by Greenblatt and Yanamadal for Peer Observation and Feedback.
Other GIM faculty have a presence in Duke-NUS – Dr. David Matchar is the Director of the Program in Health Services and Systems Research at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; Dr. John Williams last week was a speaker for the “Primary Care Roundtable” conference about the advantages of the Primary Care Medical Home; and Dr. Ryanne Wu is evaluating a teaching program for students in ambulatory medicine where, so far, there’s little precedence.
Greenblatt tells us the future looks bright. He adds that “the faculty appear to be highly motivated to improve and there is a wonderful sense of importance to what we are doing.”
