One Minute Preceptor Model: The Impact of Incorporating an Interactive Didactic Session Into Surgery Intern Orientation

Objective: Residents are critically important educators to medical students; however, many have no formal education training. The One-Minute Preceptor (OMP) model was incorporated into surgical intern orientation. We assessed this session's impact on medical student evaluations of resident teaching. Design: A 1-hour, resident-led OMP session was integrated into the 2023 surgical intern orientation. Medical student evaluations of 2023 surgical interns who participated in this session were compared to evaluations of 2022 surgical interns who did not participate. Evaluations from the first 3 months of each cohort were included for mixed method analysis. Setting: A single academic general surgery residency program in Buffalo, NY. Participants: All incoming general surgery, urology, and vascular residents who participated in surgery orientation and the OMP session. Results: Fifteen residents were included, 8 from 2022 and 7 from 2023, with 53 total evaluations. Higher frequency of weekly study sessions occurred in 2023 versus 2022 (94% vs 62%, p = 0.022); however, no other quantitative difference in resident teaching was identified (p > 0.05). Coding student evaluations of residents yielded 3 major themes: (1) Establishing Psychological Safety, the prevailing theme of 2022, (2) Integrating Intentional Medical Student Teaching, prevailing theme of 2023, (3) and Modeling Efficient, Competent, and Empathetic Patient Care. Conclusion: Integrating the OMP model into resident orientation demonstrated a positive impact on teaching frequency and increased medical student perceptions of residents as educators at our program. Targeted didactic curricula for incoming interns can empower residents to find additional teaching opportunities and improve their focus on teaching medical students in a busy clinical setting.