Understanding Tensions in Medical Apprenticeship - Teaching Contouring Skills

Explore a 15-minute conference talk from CHI 2024 that delves into the challenges and dynamics of teaching specialized medical skills, particularly in the field of radiotherapy. Investigate the tensions between faculty and residents in the apprenticeship model, focusing on the critical skill of contouring tumors for radiotherapy. Gain insights from interviews, design-thinking workshops, and a global survey involving practitioners from 31 countries. Discover the misalignment between teaching methods and residents' needs for timely, relevant, and diverse feedback. Examine the reasons behind these tensions, including overlapping learning content and the lack of support for exchanging cognitive processes. Learn about sociotechnical implications for improving medical education, such as leveraging senior learners for case-based guidance and using in-situ video snippets to support the flow of cognitive information between teachers and learners.