ITE "keywords" that I can't interpret. AI also can't interpret. How am I supposed to learn from this?

[Soparklion]

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I don't fully understand a few of my ITE keyword, although some of these questions apparently had correct answer rates of ~40%, which gives me pause:

1. QI: Outcome Measurements. Am I supposed to learn all of statistics?
2. Disabilities: Legal Aspects. Are these my disabilities, employee disabilities, patient pre-existing disabilities in a preop clinic, or disabilities related to complications?
3. Racial Disparities: Perioperative Cx. What is "Cx?" Am I changing culture, or identifying complications? Or is there genetic variation to the circumflex artery? I am a woman and the child of immigrants, so this one hurts.
4. Ethics: DNR. I understand "DNR" but what ethical issue is involved?

 

[CopaceticOne]

You need to have conversations with your attendings about these, especially #4.

There is no “correct single right answer” to these concepts.

 

[Iso4ane]

ITE is only 200 questions, you don't remember the question I guess.

But if I had to guess what the question was asking:
#1 Goals-setting; look up SMART Acronym
#2 Disabilities in setting of board certification
#3 How patient's culture and background can influence how they seek medical care and thus their outcomes; Or how a provider's racial background can make them more blind/in tune with specific other cultures similar to their own, or have had experience with
#4 DNR: who, what, when, where to rescind DNR

 

[CopaceticOne]

Wait a sec… are these the ITE keywords you’re assigned to teach residents?

I work at a large academic medical center that staffs multiple anesthesiologists 24/7. Our particular issue is call. We have a trauma call anesthesiologist in house to staff from 7p-7a x7days per week.
Cardiac anesthesia staffs 7p-7a as well via home call.
Transplant anesthesia staffs 7p-7a, also via home call.

The issue that we have is that the in-house provider is running ORs for 80% of their shift while the Cardiac and Transplant specialists are carrying a pager and at home for 80% of their 'shift'. The work is obviously not equal. I am interested to hear how other groups have addressed this same problem.

 

[A Deep Breath]

The outline is more useful to entities like test prep companies. They’re able to sort examinee-reported questions into something like the disabilities category and see patterns.

The outline isn’t nearly as useful for individual test takers, which I consider unfair and would vote to change.

 

[ToKingdomCome]

How are you using AI to interpret the other key words?