Learning to Love Endoscopy: Lessons from the Five Love Languages About Creating an Optimal Learning Environment for Endoscopic Trainees

Excerpt

One of the core goals of gastroenterology fellowship programs is to ensure that graduating fellows are competent endoscopists [1]. Most fellowship programs strive to achieve this goal through an apprenticeship model, where fellows (referred herein as trainees) learn directly from paired attending gastroenterologists (trainers). Two challenges of this model are that these relationships vary in length, encompassing everything from a single endoscopic procedure to a multi-month partnership, and trainees vary in experience depending on when the interaction occurs during the course of their training. Though a recent study helped to identify the key competencies of trainers that best facilitated endoscopic teaching, there is limited literature on how trainers can create an optimal clinical learning environment (CLE) for this teaching and learning to occur [2]. …