An Online Repository of Teaching Scripts: Leveraging Group Wisdom for Teaching

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Background: Experienced clinical educators often use teaching scripts developed over time to teach frequently encountered clinical topics. Teaching scripts are structured, evidence‐based tools that enhance clinical education by providing concise, high‐yield learning points during patient rounds. Approach: A team of paediatric hospitalists (inpatient attendings) and trainees developed a large repository of online teaching scripts to offer pre‐created, evidence‐based teaching approaches for the inpatient setting. This repository is located on the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM) website. Clinicians around the nation (and globally) were invited to submit teaching scripts incorporating evidence‐based, high‐yield teaching points and strategies. Each script underwent review by multiple members of the AAP SOHM Teaching Script Subcommittee to ensure accuracy, usability, and novelty. Currently, there are over 60 teaching scripts published on the website, each with a link for feedback. Evaluation: Between 2019 and 2021, the repository received 6652 page views. Survey data show that 97% of users found the scripts beneficial for improving their teaching effectiveness, 84% planned to use them and 76% expressed interest in creating their own script. Implications: A national repository of peer‐reviewed teaching scripts is useful to offer readily accessible, high‐quality educational resources. This initiative enhances teaching efficiency, supports faculty development and provides a scalable model for medical education. Future studies should assess the impact on learner comprehension and patient outcomes.

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