The First Experience with an Interns’ Retreat at the American University of BeirutMedical Center
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The objective of this report is to illustrate the importance of a one-day retreat in promoting interns’ wellbeing, friendship, and developing early skills in leadership, time management, planning, teamwork and communication. Material and methods: The medical chief residents and program director planned the activity that took place at the American University of Beirut campus. Twenty-five interns participated in this activity.The retreat included ice-breaking games, four training sessions, listening to the experience of a previous intern, a non-medical jeopardy and basketball games. Results: 93% of survey responders acknowledged that this activity played an important role in strengthening peer-to-peer relationship and also recommended making this activity a yearly tradition. The session on communication got rated best. Conclusion: We recommend continuing with this activity as we believe it can help our interns better navigate through the most challenging year of their residency.
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Nisrine Ghazal, Marie Noel Rahal, Pierre Bou Khalil
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