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Training-Module for Residents in Medical Educational Technologies (TRIM): Need and Operational Strategies

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Residents-as-teachers campaign started abroad during the last decade of the twentieth century. In India, though used informally for teaching of undergraduate students, residents have mostly been used for patientcare and their formal induction as teacher in Indian scenario is rare. Accordingly, not much effort has been made to train them formally in educational technologies. Teaching job requirements of residents are not the same as that of medical college faculty; as such, a program designed for medical college faculty will not prove equally effective for the residents. There is urgent need to train the residents in educational technologies for tapping their full potential as teachers and for this to happen, there must be a training module, tailor-made for the teaching-job requirements of the residents. This paper proposes such a program, after emphasizing the need of inducting residents in departmental formal teaching activities.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, Punjab, India

    Rajiv Mahajan

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Piyush Gupta

  3. Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Education, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Amritsar, Punjab, India

    Tejinder Singh

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TS: conceptualized the paper; RM: prepared the initial manuscript:PG: finalized it; All authors provided critical inputs and approved the final manuscript.

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Mahajan, R., Gupta, P. & Singh, T. Training-Module for Residents in Medical Educational Technologies (TRIM): Need and Operational Strategies. Indian Pediatr 57, 944–949 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-2000-x

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