SHM's Clinical Quick Talks-A Guide to Effective Oral Case Presentations

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The document serves as a comprehensive guide to effectively present oral cases in the medical field. It highlights the importance of oral case presentations (OCP) in facilitating quality patient care and promoting learning among medical trainees. The lack of standardized approaches and overreliance on simplistic formats in OCP can lead to confusion. The guide defines an effective OCP as a well-organized, comprehensive report that guides listeners to the same conclusion as the speaker. <br /><br />It introduces the SOAPS format (Story, Organization, Argument, Pertinence, Speech) as a structured approach to teaching OCP, aiming to address common expectations and guide medical trainees in presenting cases. The format emphasizes weaving clinical facts into a coherent story, following a traditional structured organization, making a case for assessment and plan, including relevant information, and delivering articulate speech.<br /><br />An example of an OCP using the SOAPS framework is provided, demonstrating the application of this format in a case scenario involving a patient with chest pain. The document stresses the significance of standardizing a structured OCP framework to guide medical trainees in producing sound clinical reasoning. It emphasizes that an effective OCP should be concise, complete, and compelling, aimed at making a case for the assessment and plan. The guide offers valuable insights, resources, and clinical pearls for enhancing oral case presentations in medical education and practice.

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Adriem Q. Ortiz, Bruce Smith

Keywords

oral case presentations

medical field

patient care

medical trainees

SOAPS format

clinical reasoning

structured approach

chest pain

clinical pearls

medical education