The virtual hallway consult as an effective means of continuing professional development in physiatry

Background: A personal learning project (PLP) is an accredited form of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Canada, and is a self-initiated learning activity that is stimulated by a question, issue or dilemma in one’s professional practice. Many complex cases or issues have no answers that a...

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Autores principales:	Karen Ethans, Tim Deutscher, Mayur Nankar
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Publicado:	Canadian Medical Education Journal 2017
Materias:	Virtual consult personal learning project Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cf638b4d0dad4182b0ac701654c096a72021-12-03T17:53:39ZThe virtual hallway consult as an effective means of continuing professional development in physiatry10.36834/cmej.368121923-1202https://doaj.org/article/cf638b4d0dad4182b0ac701654c096a72017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/36812https://doaj.org/toc/1923-1202Background: A personal learning project (PLP) is an accredited form of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Canada, and is a self-initiated learning activity that is stimulated by a question, issue or dilemma in one’s professional practice. Many complex cases or issues have no answers that are readily available. Many physicians rely day to day on other physician colleagues that they may consult in their institution. Given the paucity of same specialty Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation colleagues in Canadian centres, the idea of Virtual Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Hallway germinated, to provide a simple tool to extend our hallways to reach colleagues with similar interests across the country. Methods: The Virtual SCI Hallway is a service set up on Yahoo Groups, with no cost to the users. On this invite-only site, members may post a question, and then all members receive the post by email. Any member may respond. Results: The SCI Hallway has been running successfully for over 13 years. As of January 2017, there were 38 members, with 2124 messages within approximately 324 conversations. Activity has been consistent since 2003. Questions and posts are not always medical expert related; there are also advocacy, professional, and scholar-role related posts. Discussion: Communication amongst specialists about practice and management of complicated problems is important for CPD, yet is difficult in subspecialized areas of medicine. Although there are many chat-pages in different areas of medicine on the internet, to our knowledge, there is not another secure, invite-only site that is low-maintenance and no cost. Karen EthansTim DeutscherMayur NankarCanadian Medical Education JournalarticleVirtual consultpersonal learning projectEducation (General)L7-991Medicine (General)R5-920ENCanadian Medical Education Journal, Vol 8, Iss 4 (2017)
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description	Background: A personal learning project (PLP) is an accredited form of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Canada, and is a self-initiated learning activity that is stimulated by a question, issue or dilemma in one’s professional practice. Many complex cases or issues have no answers that are readily available. Many physicians rely day to day on other physician colleagues that they may consult in their institution. Given the paucity of same specialty Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation colleagues in Canadian centres, the idea of Virtual Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Hallway germinated, to provide a simple tool to extend our hallways to reach colleagues with similar interests across the country. Methods: The Virtual SCI Hallway is a service set up on Yahoo Groups, with no cost to the users. On this invite-only site, members may post a question, and then all members receive the post by email. Any member may respond. Results: The SCI Hallway has been running successfully for over 13 years. As of January 2017, there were 38 members, with 2124 messages within approximately 324 conversations. Activity has been consistent since 2003. Questions and posts are not always medical expert related; there are also advocacy, professional, and scholar-role related posts. Discussion: Communication amongst specialists about practice and management of complicated problems is important for CPD, yet is difficult in subspecialized areas of medicine. Although there are many chat-pages in different areas of medicine on the internet, to our knowledge, there is not another secure, invite-only site that is low-maintenance and no cost.
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The virtual hallway consult as an effective means of continuing professional development in physiatry

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