A Consensus Curriculum for Laboratory Management Training for Pathology Residents

Weiss, Ronald L.; McKenna, Barbara J.; Lord-Toof, Melissa; Thompson, Nancie Noie

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“…[22] Another wiki that attempts to define a pathology curriculum is the American Society for Clinical Pathology's consensus curriculum for laboratory management training (http://wiki.ascp.org/wikka.php?wakka=Curriculum); this wiki is much like the Massachusetts General Hospital Pathology Informatics Wiki in that it culls and links usable content from sources like Wikipedia and cdc.gov. [26] All of these approaches are valid and are likely to provide useful sources of publically available pathology informatics didactic material.…”

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Use of a wiki as an interactive teaching tool in pathology residency education: Experience with a genomics, research, and informatics in pathology course

Park

Parwani

Macpherson

et al. 2012

Journal of Pathology Informatics

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Background:The need for informatics and genomics training in pathology is critical, yet limited resources for such training are available. In this study we sought to critically test the hypothesis that the incorporation of a wiki (a collaborative writing and publication tool with roots in “Web 2.0”) in a combined informatics and genomics course could both (1) serve as an interactive, collaborative educational resource and reference and (2) actively engage trainees by requiring the creation and sharing of educational materials.Materials and Methods:A 2-week full-time course at our institution covering genomics, research, and pathology informatics (GRIP) was taught by 36 faculty to 18 second- and third-year pathology residents. The course content included didactic lectures and hands-on demonstrations of technology (e.g., whole-slide scanning, telepathology, and statistics software). Attendees were given pre- and posttests. Residents were trained to use wiki technology (MediaWiki) and requested to construct a wiki about the GRIP course by writing comprehensive online review articles on assigned lectures. To gauge effectiveness, pretest and posttest scores for our course were compared with scores from the previous 7 years from the predecessor course (limited to informatics) given at our institution that did not utilize wikis.Results:Residents constructed 59 peer-reviewed collaborative wiki articles. This group showed a 25% improvement (standard deviation 12%) in test scores, which was greater than the 16% delta recorded in the prior 7 years of our predecessor course (P = 0.006).Conclusions:Our use of wiki technology provided a wiki containing high-quality content that will form the basis of future pathology informatics and genomics courses and proved to be an effective teaching tool, as evidenced by the significant rise in our resident posttest scores. Data from this project provide support for the notion that active participation in content creation is an effective mechanism for mastery of content. Future residents taking this course will continue to build on this wiki, keeping content current, and thereby benefit from this collaborative teaching tool.

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Use of a wiki as an interactive teaching tool in pathology residency education: Experience with a genomics, research, and informatics in pathology course

Park

Parwani

Macpherson

et al. 2012

Journal of Pathology Informatics

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“…Key indications of expert interpretation of medical images are consistent, accurate and efficient diagnostic performance, which require not only dedicated training and experience but some degree of talent, aptitude and motivation. Experts are better able to search, process, and interpret larger perceptual units than those with less skill because they are better able to recognize these units more efficiently and effectively as configurations or chunks of information rather than individual pieces [ 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 ]. The mechanism behind this phenomenon is thought to be due to perceptual and/or cognitive tuning to the visual task as the observer encounters more exemplars over time with suitable training and feedback.…”

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Human Factors and Human-Computer Considerations in Teleradiology and Telepathology

Krupiński

2014

Healthcare

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Radiology and pathology are unique among other clinical specialties that incorporate telemedicine technologies into clinical practice, as, for the most part in traditional practice, there are few or no direct patient encounters. The majority of teleradiology and telepathology involves viewing images, which is exactly what occurs without the “tele” component. The images used are generally quite large, require dedicated displays and software for viewing, and present challenges to the clinician who must navigate through the presented data to render a diagnostic decision or interpretation. This digital viewing environment is very different from the more traditional reading environment (i.e., film and microscopy), necessitating a new look at how to optimize reading environments and address human factors issues. This paper will review some of the key components that need to be optimized for effective and efficient practice of teleradiology and telepathology using traditional workstations as well as some of the newer mobile viewing applications.

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“…7 Briefly, that survey found that 48% of pathology training programs devoted more than 20 hours to practice and laboratory management topics. was part of a work group of the American Pathology Foundation (APF), the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), and the Program Directors Section that developed and distributed a survey on management training practices to the Program Directors Section listserv.…”

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Progress Toward Improved Leadership and Management Training in Pathology

Weiss

Hassell

Parks

2014

Archives of Pathology &Amp; Laboratory Medicine

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It is our recommendation that (1) every training program develop a formal educational strategy for management training, (2) greater opportunity and visibility be afforded for peer-reviewed publications on management topics in mainstream pathology literature, and (3) pathology milestones-oriented tools be developed to assist program directors and their trainees in developing this necessary knowledge and skills.

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A Consensus Curriculum for Laboratory Management Training for Pathology Residents

Cited by 20 publications

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Use of a wiki as an interactive teaching tool in pathology residency education: Experience with a genomics, research, and informatics in pathology course

Use of a wiki as an interactive teaching tool in pathology residency education: Experience with a genomics, research, and informatics in pathology course

Human Factors and Human-Computer Considerations in Teleradiology and Telepathology

Progress Toward Improved Leadership and Management Training in Pathology

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