Brief Practice on Ward Rotation Notes for Learners
Objective: To collect and recall information about Learners interests, strengths
and personal data with the intent of use for evaluations and future Letters of
recommendation
1) Create a note or document for each Resident or Student
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create template in your cell phone or tablet
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Name of Resident or Learner
Dates that you worked with them
Named interests in learning on the rotation, “goals”
Strengths
Recommendations for improvement
Interests for future career, e.g. Hospitalist vs Primary Care vs. Specialist (which
specialty)
Projected ideas on where they might wish to practice
Personal life (if offered), hobbies and interests
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Best to initiate these notes and templates before starting the rotation
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Important to update the strengths and recommendation on a daily basis as you observe them, I
usually dictate these remarks at the end of the day or while walking home.
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Create a word document for each individuals note following the rotation
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Make a file on your desktop or other location to store these documents
2) Very useful in completing New Innovation Evaluations
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You can copy and paste the observations that you made during the rotation into the evaluation
form
I rely on these notes to give feedback to the residents during the rotation, thus the final New
Innovation Evals are sure to match
3) Student observations can be sent to Deepti to add to the comments she collects during PRIME sessions
for the IM Clerkship
4) Letters of Recommendations can be personalized with these notes
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Academic, career and personal comments
Helps you recall the timing of the rotation and the extent of your interactions
Every Professional Reference form requests that you state how long you have known the
candidate, or when you first worked with them
5) Learning future geographic and career plans can allow you to watch for suitable job opportunities
during the early 3rd year of Residency for these individuals.
Example:
Resident: Leonardo Ferraro, R2
Dates of rotation: 9/9/15 to 9/22/15
Goals at the beginning of rotation: Improve efficiency and Management Skills
Strengths:
Good attitude, really appears to enjoy his work as a doctor, never complains
Strong work ethic
Respectful and compassionate toward patients and others
Team player, seeks multidisciplinary approach in patient care
Recommendations
Need to dictate all Discharge summaries to improve efficiency
Mention discharge facility in all your patients transferred to SNF
Review Cache daily and update as needed
Review orders at end of the day to ‘clean them up’ especially level of care, monitoring, etc
Divorced for two years, he is a single father with two young children, Simon 5 yo and Kelly 8 yo.
Worked as a tech doing bench research in pathogenicity of listeria for four years prior to medical school
at UNM. He continues to do volunteer work for the homeless. He is from an Italian family and grew up in
New York. Moved to NM during his high school years due to family relocation.
He is interested in being a hospitalist or maybe Gastroenterologist. Might consider academic medicine but
probably work in the community first if he becomes a hospitalist. Wants to stay in Albuquerque due to
friend and family support in caring for his young children.
Hobbies include playing piano, playing soccer and playing with his children, of cour
Standout Feature: Given his circumstances of family commitment and impossibly busy work
schedule, he has one of the happiest and positive outlooks on life I have ever seen in a resident.
I have agreed to write him a letter of recommendation or professional reference as he seeks
employment or fellowship