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Strategies to Ensure Academic Success—How to Create Individualized Support Plans
Objective/Background: As medical students undergo personal and professional
development, they can be faced with challenges and barriers to optimal growth. These experiences can
occur during both the pre-clinical or clinical phase of their medical education, and may represent
academic, personal or behavioral challenges. The fact that medical education represents a major
transition point in students’ lives, coupled with the often stressful learning environment, students may
find themselves struggling to succeed. The OB/GYN learning environment is frequently a challenge to
many learners, and with the advent of entrustable professional activities and milestones, an opportunity
to incorporate individualized plans.
The objectives of this workshop are to:
• Identify characteristics that create challenges to academic success
• Illustrate remediation strategies to address student needs
• Analyze unique student situations to develop a customized support system
• Utilize flexible approaches to create individualized plans
Workshop Agenda/Interactive Component/Take Home Product: This interactive workshop will examine
challenges to student academic success and illustrate strategies for remediation that include
individualized support and learning plans. The group will analyze unique student needs to gain a better
understanding of what is needed to develop a customized plan to help a student achieve success. The
authors will share programs, approaches and experiences from their home institutions. Participants will
utilize the approaches when discussing scenarios specific to the OB/GYN learning environment in small
groups and will share key points with the larger group so they can take home a toolbox of strategies and
techniques to successfully create individual learning plans.
Topics:
Faculty Development Seminar, 2018, Student, Faculty, Professionalism, Practice-Based Learning & Improvement, UME, Assessment,
