title: Sailing smoothly across the cultural divide: Constructing effective behavioral science presentations for medical audiences.
abstract: Beginning behavioral science faculty, who are critical residency program contributors, face significant immediate challenges that often diminish their effectiveness and increase the time it takes to translate and reformat their expertise into relevant and meaningful educational presentations. Residency program culture and competency-based learning are quite different from the educational objectives and teaching environments found in most behavioral health training programs. The goal of this article is to provide beginning behavior science faculty, who are typically on their own and learning on the job, with a guide to the core educational perspectives and skills required as well as key resources that are available to them. Since a significant portion of behavioral science faculty's teaching time revolves around small and large group presentations, our guide focuses on how to incorporate key strategies and resources into relevant, evidenced-based and, most importantly, effective behavioral health presentations for the program's resident physicians. Specifically, our recommendations include selection of content, methods of content organization, techniques for actively engaging resident physicians in discussing the significance of the topics, and descriptions of numerous Internet resources for the primary mental health topics that concern family medicine trainees. Finally, it is emphasized that the relevant and effective use of these recommendations is dependent upon the behavioral science faculty educator's first understanding and appreciating how physicians' think, speak, and prioritize information while caring for their patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Linda_Myerholtz@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Myerholtz
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Tufts/Maine Medical Center School of Medicine, Portland, ME, USA.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schirmer
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine Residency Program, Methodist Health System, Dallas, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Mary Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carling
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001525:Behavioral Sciences / Q000193:education*; D003469:Culture; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication
keywords: Medical education; behavioral science education; physician trainee; residency education; training techniques