{"pk":13028,"title":"Does the Removal of Textbook Reading from Emergency Medicine Resident Education Negatively Affect In-Service Scores?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n In-service exam scores are used by residency programs as a marker for progress and success on board exams. Conference curriculum helps residents prepare for these exams. At our institution, due to resident feedback a change in curriculum was initiated. Our objective was to determine whether assigned Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) articles and Rosh Review questions were non-inferior to Tintinalli textbook readings. We further hypothesized that the non-textbook assigned curriculum would lead to higher resident satisfaction, greater utilization, and a preference over the old curriculum.\nMethods:\n We collected scores from both the allopathic In-training Examination (ITE) and osteopathic Emergency Medicine Residency In-service Exam (RISE) scores taken by our program’s residents from both the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 residency years. We compared scores pre-curriculum change (pre-CC) to scores post-curriculum change (post-CC). A five-question survey was sent to the residents regarding their satisfaction, preference, and utilization of the two curricula.\nResults: \nResident scores post-CC were shown to be non-inferior to their scores pre-CC for both exams. There was also no significant difference when we compared scores from each class post-CC to their respective class year pre-CC for both exams. Our survey showed significantly more satisfaction, utilization, and preference for this new curriculum among residents.\nConclusion:\n We found question-based learning and Evidence-Based Medicine articles non-inferior to textbook readings. This study provides evidence to support a move away from textbook readings without sacrificing scores on examinations.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"in-service, exams, education, rosh review, tintinalli,"}],"section":"Education","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93c0t4gp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ju","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Paterson, New Jersey","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bove","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Paterson, New Jersey","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hochman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Paterson, New Jersey","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-07-27T11:02:59-07:00","date_accepted":"2019-07-27T11:02:59-07:00","date_published":"2020-02-25T14:04:07-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/13028/galley/6823/download/"}]}