7 Fireside Chats provides students with an opportunity to share and listen to personal experiences, best practices, and overall guidance from attending physicians. While patient care is regarded as the most important change introduced during clinical rotations, the interaction between students and mentors is another key catalyst in medical students’ transformation from theorists into practitioners. Of course, FC can also address academic topics. Indeed, FC was designed partly to evoke the nostalgia of school field trips. Finally, FC most often occurs off campus in local cafes or restaurants to ensure a true physical and mental separation between work and leisure.
Moreover, residents are not allowed at FC sessions, ensuring that each student has protected space to discuss topics that are specific to the surgery clerkship, or to medical school as a whole. While any topic is fair game for discussion, nearly all students intentionally engage in nonmedically related conversation in order to have a brief respite from work. Fireside Chats takes place every Friday after morning rounds for approximately 1 to 2 hours, ensuring that students have dedicated time to participate and that FC does not impinge on after-school study hours. In an intimate setting comprised of 2 or 3 surgery clerkship students with 1 faculty member, attendees “check-in” with each other-sharing the week’s positives and negatives, discussing current events, or even recounting deeply personal life stories. In January 2015, the senior author implemented “Fireside Chats” (FC) inspired by Roosevelt’s Depression-era radio broadcasts. In summary, LC can be improved by an additional activity that (1) occurs in smaller groups, (2) specializes in one particular clinical setting, and (3) journeys off campus in the pursuit of wellness. Finally, the fact that LC occur on campus may hamper efforts to mentally separate work from relaxation. This deficiency becomes most apparent during surgery rotations, which offer fundamentally distinct challenges such as procedural skills and navigation of the high-stakes operating room.
Moreover, all clerkships are represented during LC sessions, and comments about a particular clerkship may be drowned in a sea of other voices. For example, LC take place in groups of 20-25 students this large group size may intimidate shier students from participating and raises the likelihood that some audience members may “tune out” when others are speaking.
5 Yet, despite their popularity, 6 LC do come with several flaws. Learning communities have been well-received 4 and are associated with improved outcomes in both student wellness and career preparation. These are longitudinal discussion forums 1 between students and faculty mentors 2 that provide dedicated spaces 3 where students can express pent-up emotions, discuss training experiences, and raise concerns without fear of negative evaluation. To reduce everyday stress encountered during medical school and to foster open dialogue, some schools have implemented “learning communities”. We discuss how one hepatobiliary transplant surgeon at Vanderbilt implemented a contemporary version of Fireside Chats as a novel wellness initiative to supplement preexisting “learning communities” and describe the important role that Fireside Chats plays in stewarding the mental health of medical students both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite widespread anxiety related to the economy and national security, millions of listeners found renewed confidence from these Fireside Chats, which demonstrates effective morale stewardship that is directly applicable to medical education. Speaking with authority yet reassurance, he elaborated on the New Deal policies enacted to combat the Great Depression, and on the nation’s progress in World War II.
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Roosevelt delivered a series of radio broadcasts called “Fireside Chats” to the entire United States.
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