Nudging clinical supervisors to provide better in-training assessment reports

Standardized Clinical Assessment And Management Plans (SCAMPs) provide a better alternative to clinical practice guidelines.

Variability in medical practice in the United States leads to higher costs without achieving better patient outcomes. Clinical practice guidelines, which are intended to reduce variation and improve care, have several drawbacks that limit the extent of buy-in by clinicians. In contrast, standardized clinical assessment and management plans (SCAMPs) offer a clinician-designed approach to promoti...

Nudging the Justice System Toward Better Decisions

Nudging, Shaming and Stigmatising to Improve Population Health; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. In this commentary, I suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

An Alternative to Traditional SLP Graduate Student Clinical Training: Exploring Collaborative Clinical Education Models with Faculty Clinical Supervisors

The clinical education model, known as “the overall contexts in which a program’s clinical instruction occurs” [1], is the cornerstone of graduate student learning. Clinical training education, which is required for pre-professionals to become licensed in a given field and includes training in graduate Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) programs, has undergone several changes in recent years. Hist...

Toward Better Training in Peer Assessment: Does Calibration Help?

For peer assessments to be helpful, student reviewers need to submit reviews of good quality. This requires certain training or guidance from teaching staff, lest reviewers read each other’s work uncritically, and assign good scores but offer few suggestions. One approach to improving the review quality is calibration. Calibration refers to comparing students’ individual reviews to a standard—u...