SHM Converge Scientific Abstract ePoster Gallery-Early Experience With a Faculty Development Newsletter to Deliver Asynchronous Microteaching

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The document describes an early effort to create and test a concise, evidence-based faculty development newsletter aimed at improving teaching efficiency and effectiveness during inpatient rounds. The motivation was that academic hospitalists often struggle to balance heavy clinical duties with their role as educators, and traditional faculty development formats like lectures and workshops can be too time-consuming, especially for early-career faculty.<br /><br />The proposed solution was an asynchronous “microteaching” newsletter: a short, practical educational email designed to be easy to read quickly and relevant to bedside teaching. The goal was to support self-directed learning and provide useful teaching tips in a format that fits busy clinical workflows.<br /><br />The pilot experience suggested that the newsletter was successfully reaching busy clinicians and had relatively strong engagement, with an open rate reported as about twice that of other HOMERuN newsletters. Audience feedback was gathered using a rating scale, and the results indicated promise for this format as a low-burden way to deliver faculty development.<br /><br />The document also highlights several next steps. These include collecting more detailed feedback beyond simple ratings, narrowing the audience to those most likely to benefit (such as early-career faculty), measuring whether the newsletter changes real teaching behavior, and exploring whether this model can be adapted to other faculty development topics.<br /><br />Overall, the project suggests that a brief, targeted newsletter may be a scalable and accessible approach to faculty development in academic hospital medicine, especially for clinicians who need learning opportunities that are efficient, practical, and easy to integrate into a busy day.

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Lucy Z. Shi

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Author List Amit K. Pahwa, Eliza Bullis, Gregory Leslie, Jack Badawy, Lucy Z. Shi, Vasundhara Singh

Category Innovations

Concept Microlearning

Concept Faculty Development

Concept Educational Newsletter

Concept Asynchronous work

Concept Academic Hospitalist

Distinguished Non-Finalist

Presenter Organization University of California Davis

Presenting Author Lucy Z. Shi

Track Education

Keywords

faculty development

microteaching

inpatient rounds

academic hospitalists

bedside teaching

newsletter

asynchronous learning

teaching efficiency

early-career faculty

medical education

Microlearning

Faculty Development

Educational Newsletter

Asynchronous work

Academic Hospitalist