Physician/Academic Fellow Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Background: Morning report is an educational platform for pediatric trainee education at various institutions in the United States. However, little is known regarding learners’ perceived satisfaction with or valuation of morning report. Similarly, perceived motivation to attend morning report amongst the learner population is unknown. Objective: This project sought to assess resident physician attitudes towards morning report at two academic institutions, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB) and University of North Carolina (UNC) to better understand the learner population and improve didactics. Design/Methods: This educational research study consisted of distribution of an anonymous twelve question survey to pediatric residents at AHWFB and UNC. Survey completion was voluntary. Survey questions were created and data collected through REDCap. Prior to survey distribution, this project was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) at AHWFB and residency program leadership at UNC. A conceptual model comprising multiple hypotheses about morning report (Figure 1) was created prior to survey development. Based on this model, statistical analysis of survey responses consisted of descriptive statistics and Chi-squared testing. Results: In total, 64 pediatric resident physicians completed our survey, 35 residents were from UNC and 29 residents from AHWFB. The majority of respondents agreed that morning report at their institution offered a safe and inclusive learning environment as well as board and practice-relevant teaching. However, only clinical practice relevance of morning report sessions was significantly associated with resident satisfaction with morning report (Table 1). The value of morning report was the most commonly cited motivator for residents to attend.
Conclusion(s): Morning report appeared to be both satisfying and valuable to the majority of residents at AHWFB and UNC. This seemed to have been driven (at least in part) by the perceived clinical practice relevance of morning report sessions.
