The Greek tragedy of the Athenian hero and the half man – half bull monster is the setting for two projects aimed at improving teaching and clinical performance.
THESEUS is a Best Practice at Rutgers-RWJMS that aims to enhance residents’ teaching of medical students. Our project complies with the ACGME Core Competencies including practice-based learning and improvement: facilitation of medical student learning and education, and builds on evidence-based data that teaching efforts improve by using a contingency of rewards. In THESEUS, we set up our system of rewards in a fantasy football format, and our Novel Fantasy League (NFL) runs throughout the academic year.
The MINOTAUR is an on-line, evidence-based reference for medication interactions. Through the use of acronyms and visual mnemonics, users of MINOTAUR demonstrated greater retention of drug information compared to those who referenced other clinical tools.
![THESEUS and the MINOTAUR](http://wickedknights.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Theseus_Minotaur_Mosaic.jpg)
THESEUS Resources:
Website: http://wickedknights.org/fantasyfootball/
Article: Teaching Housestaff to Enhance Student Education With the Use of Fantasy Sports (THESEUS) by Anthony Tobia, M.D., Snehal Bhatt, M.D. Heather Grigo, M.D., Maria Katsamanis, Psy.D.
Poster: Teaching Housestaff to Enhance Student Education with the Use of fantasy Sports” (THESEUS)
MINOTAUR Resources:
Poster: Psychopharmacology Interactive Training Algorithm