Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Ilgen serves as the Vice Chair of Faculty Development and Education and cares for patients in the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center Emergency Departments. He directs the Medical Education Research Fellowship within the Department of Emergency Medicine and also provides longitudinal mentorship and instruction to medical students within UW School of Medicine Colleges program.
Dr. Ilgen is a health professions education researcher, and his recent work has focused on how clinicians recognize, experience, and respond to uncertainty in their daily work. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education and is a founding member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design in Medical Education (ARMED MedEd) course.
Episode Summary
Clinical reasoning encompasses a number of different types of skills, including the skills of observation, communication, and synthesis. In this podcast Dr. Jon Ilgen provides a toolbox of instructional tips and techniques that can be used to help learners at different stages of the training continuum develop the skills they will need to diagnose and treat patients.
Related Resources (UW Library Access Needed for Articles)
Mookherjee, S., & Cosgrove, E. M. (2016). Handbook of clinical teaching. Switzerland: Springer | See Chapter 21 for expanded text on this topic.