Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.
BACKGROUND
Publishing a case report demonstrates scholarly productivity for trainees and clinician-educators.


OBJECTIVE
To assess the learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.


METHODS
Medical students, residents, fellows and clinician-educators attending a workshop.


METHODS
Case report writing workshop conducted nine times at different venues.


RESULTS
Before and after each workshop, participants self-rated their perceived competence to write a case report, likelihood of submitting a case report to a meeting or for publication in the next 6-12 months, and perceived career benefit of writing a case report (on a five-point Likert scale). The 214 participants were from 3 countries and 27 states or provinces; most participants were trainees (64.5 %). Self-rated competence for writing a case report improved from a mean of 2.5 to 3.5 (a 0.99 increase; 95% CI, 0.88-1.12, p < 0.001). The perceived likelihood of submitting a case report, and the perceived career benefit of writing one, also showed statistically significant improvements (p = 0.002, p = 0.001; respectively). Nine of 98 participants published a case report 16-41 months after workshop completion.


CONCLUSIONS
The workshop increased participants' perception that they could present or publish a case report.
Sridhar
Arun R Mahankali
AR
School of Public Health, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Willett
Lisa L
LL
Castiglioni
Analia
A
Heudebert
Gustavo
G
Landry
Michael
M
Centor
Robert M
RM
Estrada
Carlos A
CA
D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011361:Professional Competence; D013192:Staff Development