The ELR (Electronic Learning Record) is an educational research project to create a microlearning network to support workplace-based learning of residents and attendings. The specific aims are to study the effect of a mobile, microlearning network on:
- Learner engagement
- Evidence-based practice
There are five components to the ELR insights framework:
- Humanism
- Curiosity
- Self-Assessment
- Critical Thinking
- Intentional Feedback
Participation in the research is open to Excellence in Teaching (EXCITE) Pathway attendings and learners (including residents, interns, medical students) on Internal Medicine teaching teams across multiple sites at Vanderbilt. At present, a total of 15 hospital medicine teaching attendings and the Internal Medicine chief residents (and their teaching teams of residents and students) participate in the ELR across two clinical sites, the VUMC main hospital and the Nashville VA Medical Center.
Learn more about our ELR Team by visiting the Members Directory.
The term 'teaching service' itself reflects a duality of purpose: students, residents, and supervising faculty learn and work together to generate clinical questions and solve problems to benefit their patients. Such processes (critical thinking, problem solving, reflective practice) require intentional design and the proper technological tools to succeed.
