MSW

Resident Education

  1. Residency Administration
    I served as the Associate Residency Program Director at Cedars-Sinai from 2014-2016. Our residency is comprised of a total of 26 residents. I primarily focused on two aspects of our residency: curriculum development and evaluation.

    • Curriculum development
      We have restructured our didactics curriculum to focus on interactive learning using a “Theme Week” format. In addition to the standard lecture hour, a second hour is devoted to an interactive “clicker” style question and answer session. This allows not just the imparting of information/knowledge, but also engages the learner by asking them to digest and distill the material to answer questions about it.
    • Evaluations and Milestones
      In the last year, we have completely overhauled our evaluation system for the residents. The two major changes we made were

      1. Revision of the rotation evaluations to milestones-based questionnaires. We developed a matrix to assign which milestones would be assessed on which of the rotations and at which sites, taking care that all would be assessed several times and yet that no individual rotation would be overburdened. This allows us to directly translate these evaluations into milestone assignments.
      2. An Electronic Point-Of-Care system that allows on-the-fly evaluation of residents performing observable tasks. We developed five questionnaires: Surgery, Clinic, Nursing, M&M, and Topic evaluations. The residents have badge buddies with QR codes which can then be scanned to take the attending directly to a SurveyMonkey page with the appropriate questions. These questionnaires also are based heavily on the milestones verbiage so as to allow better translation for the CCC’s milestone level assignments.
  2. Clinical teaching
    1. Subspecialty Clinics Rotation
      As a part of their chief year, each resident completes a “subspecialty clinics” rotation, of which one day per week is spent with me in my private practice office. The residents are encouraged to obtain a better understanding of the general day-to-day of an outpatient office which differs substantially from the experience in a community-based clinic.
    2. Continuity Clinic Attending
      In August 2015, I will begin attending the Saban Community Clinic where the residents provide care for the uninsured and Medi-Cal patients of our community.
    3. Labor and Delivery
      As discussed in my teaching of medical students, two days per week I am the in-house attending on labor and delivery. There, I work closely with the residents and medical students both in management of the housestaff patients as well as the supervision of the unit as a whole. The attendings, residents, students, and nurses round on the patients 6 times per day, and each of these sessions also serves as another opportunity for education for both students and residents.
  3. Resident Didactics
    1. Wong M. ASPRE Preeclampsia Trial. Resident landmark article review.
    2. Wong M. CRASH-2 trial results. Journal club.
    3. Wong M. Closed-loop insulin for T1DM in pregnancy. Journal club.
    4. Wong M. Trauma in Pregnancy. Interactive case discussion and lecture.
    5. Wong M. Adjunctive Azithromycin for Cesarean Family-Feud. Resident landmark article review.
    6. Wong M. Pallister-Killian Syndrome and PPROM after amnioreduction. M&M.
    7. Wong M. Azithromycin for cesarean delivery. Journal club.
    8. Wong M. LEEP and preterm birth risk. Journal club
    9. Vulvar Disorders. Resident lecture.
    10. Effective Powerpoint presentations. Interactive lecture and simulation.
    11. Office based Ob/Gyn CREOG Review. Interactive lecture.
    12. Weekly Gynecology Post-Operative Conference. Interactive lecture.
    13. Bartholin gland cyst simulation: word catheter and marsupialization.
    14. Veni, vidi, vici vulva et vagina: benign conditions of the vulva and vagina. Interactive lecture.
    15. Conflict in healthcare teams. Interactive lecture.
    16. Forceps-Assisted Vaginal Delivery. Interactive lecture and simulation.
    17. Endometrial Hyperplasia Family-Feud. Resident landmark article review.
    18. Hepatitis in Pregnancy. Resident lecture.
    19. Evidence-Based Cesarean Delivery Jeopardy. Resident landmark article review.
    20. Medical Education Theory: A Primer for Residents. Resident lecture.
    21. The CREST sterilization study. Resident landmark article review.
    22. Postpartum Hemorrhage Simulation. Resident lecture.
    23. Antenatal Corticosteroids (Liggins and Howie 1972). Resident landmark article review.
    24. The new 2013 ASCCP Updated Abnormal Cytology Guidelines. Resident lecture.
    25. 2013 ASCCP Updated Abnormal Cytology Guidelines Jeopardy. Resident lecture.
    26. Early Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Evacuation of the First-Trimester Uterus. Resident lecture.
    27. Peripheral Nerve Injury in Gynecologic Surgery. Resident lecture.
    28. Normal Labor and Delivery. Resident lecture.
    29. National Abortion Federation Early Medical Abortion. Resident landmark article review.