The Communal Consultation Video - enhancing learning and understanding

Abstract

AIM: Instructional videos are well established for psychomotor skills learning. However there are other skills and insights that can be gained from such on demand videos. Students often request one-on-one consultations for their patient’s clinical care. However, these rich, bespoke teaching and learning moments are usually lost to the rest of the class. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The author has video recorded treatment planning consultations for the learning community to benefit from. In addition, performances of summative clinical skills procedures have been similarly captured. RESULTS: These videos form part of a resource of over 100 videos for the fixed prosthodontics programme during the course in BDS 4 and in BDS 5 when students perform these treatments. The Communal Consultation Videos for treatment planning were intended to support students outside of the didactic psychomotor skill course and be useful for students to “bridge” the theory to clinical practice knowledge gap. These videos help support students transition to real world, authentic clinical cases relating to their own patients. The videos are catalogued by case complexity: straightforward, advanced, complex; tooth location and descriptive key words. This allows students to find the most relevant resources for their needs. In addition the Communal Consultations Videos have been extended to cover clinical summative competency assessments of individual students focusing on the case presentation before and self-evaluation after the skills procedure. These have been captured with the desire of opening the black-box of assessment so “first-hand” exposure to the assessment process is afforded prior to the exam which defines features not only of scope but also quality. CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary feedback for these resources has been well received and consumed. An analysis is being performed to determine the key features and benefits and how to increase consumption. These also act as an assessment resource for new staff moderation and calibration when competency testing.