Evaluating Morning Reports by Emergency Medicine Residents

Background: Inpatient case-based teaching is used in morning report (MR). In light of the quick changes in medical practice, it's critical to gauge the residents' opinions of this teaching approach. In order to determine the viewpoint of emergency medicine residents on different parts of morning reports and to suggest a format based on our observations, our study used an observational cross-sectional methodology.

Methods: Residents of King Saud Medical City (KSMC), King Salman Hospital, Aliman General Hospital, and Imam Abdulrahman Alfaisal Hospital participated in an observational cross-sectional survey on morning reports. The residents were given a 22-item questionnaire that asked them about the objective, structure, and substance of the morning report as well as who would be the best choice to present and conduct it and how frequently it should be done. The statistical program "Statistical Package for Social Sciences" was used for the analyses (SPSS).

Results: 88.6% of residents agreed that the morning report should be presented by the post-call faculty. 53.3% of respondents said they preferred a general internist, while the chief resident who was conducting the report received a nearly identical response rate (54.6%). Discussion of particular intriguing instances was preferred by 34.6% of the residents since it would aid those 70% more in their post-graduate exams. The residents strongly agreed that management difficulties (86.6%) and diagnostic workup (90%) should be discussed in the morning report. Evidence-based medicine (66.6%) and disease processes (67.3% each) received equal ratings.

Conclusion: Morning reports are a valuable instructional tool and ought to be a requirement of all postgraduate residency programs, both domestically and abroad.