title: Collaborative development of teaching scripts: an efficient faculty development approach for a busy clinical teaching unit.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Exemplary teachers have been shown to use teaching scripts, ways of organizing the content and instructional approach for commonly encountered teachable moments. This study describes a busy hospitalist unit's early experience with the collaborative development of teaching scripts.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 2010, during monthly workshops, 10 faculty members each prepared and presented a teaching script for a different commonly encountered diagnosis. Open-ended surveys assessing the impact on faculty were analyzed using an iterative approach. Changes in faculty self-efficacy, and the frequency and applicability of teaching were measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The program required 10 hours of attendance time and a mean of 4.3 hours for each faculty member who prepared a teaching script. No significant differences in quantity or applicability of teaching were detected, but faculty self-efficacy improved significantly. In addition, faculty described beneficial effects in their individual professional development, development of a shared mental model of professional responsibility, and interpersonal relationships. A majority of comments were positive; negative comments focused on the time required to prepare scripts, and apprehension about presenting to peers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The program was an efficient approach to improve self-rated teaching skills, enhance professional development, and build collegiality among clinician-teachers.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Medicine Division, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA. Valerie_Lang@urmc.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Valerie J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Alec B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blatt
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gracey
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004493:Education; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009518:New York; D016730:Program Development; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*