Quality Dimensions of Educational Morning Report Sessions

Abstract

Morning report sessions had long-standing history in medical education. Morning report management isan important aspect of professional medical education.To evaluate the contents of the morning report sessions, including management, staff training, deeplearning, attention to learners at different level of education, record keeping, feedback, and finalsummarizing, direct observation of 73 sessions was conducted in five teaching hospitals in a medicaluniversity in Tehran.The following scores were obtained: morning report management (91%), training faculty members(9%), residents' training (4%), direct learning by patient management instead of memorizing studymaterial (88%), paying attention to the different educational levels of learners (28%), record keeping(36%), systematic feedback (48%), and a final summarizing session (26%).Out of eight, five dimensions related to teaching in the morning report sessions need improvisation,specifically on the training of faculty members and residents, paying attention to different educationallevels of learners, brief summary of all sessions, and record keeping.