Take-Home Points

1. Teaching Scripts and Chalk Talks promote efficient and effective teaching.
   

2. Teaching Scripts and Chalk Talks should have five essential elements:

1. 1. The Hook

   2. A limited number of Take-Home Points

   3. Clear organization

   4. Strategies for learner engagement and retention

   5. A summary

Take-Home Points

1. Teaching Scripts are pre-planned, targeted teachings delivered during clinical encounters. Aim for 1-5 minutes in duration.

2. Chalk Talks are pre-planned teachings delivered in team rooms. Typical duration is 10-15 minutes.

3. "Triggers" are common phrases used by trainees that serve as opportunities to "activate" or "start" your teaching. These are usually common medical conditions they encounter, or common questions they ask.

Take-Home Points

1. Start with a hook to focus your learner on your teaching

2. Hooks should signal to learners how your teaching meets their needs, and/or can use an engagement technique

3. Three engagement techniques for hooks include: stories, hypotheticals, and questions.

Take-Home Points

1. Take-Home Points are selective, concise teachings - they are the most important points you want your learner to remember.

2. Your Teaching Scripts and Chalk Talks should be built on the foundation of your Take-Home Points.

3. Take-Home Points can focus on the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, diagnostics, management or common pitfalls

Take-Home Points

1. Start with a hook and end with a concise summary

2. Each Take-Home Point should be bolstered by an illustration, example, application, or strategy (see below).

Take-Home Points

1. The same strategies that promote engagement also promote memory: tell stories, ask purposeful questions to different levels of learners, use mental frameworks like advanced organizers and mnemonics, and incorporate visual aids.

2. If learners are hesitant to respond to questions, try asking questions that can’t be wrong like “how have you seen someone approach dyspnea before?”

3. Three types of commonly used advanced organizers are: charts, flow-diagrams, and visual analogies (like the dyspnea pyramid).