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ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2025

The Optimizing Whiteboard Lectures (OWL) Checklist: A Novel "Chalk Talk" Assessment Tool.

Ryan E Nelson, Jason A Freed, Tianyu Sissi Chen, Monica Thim, Sarah Olofsson, Daniel N Ricotta

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Article in Journal of graduate medical education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ryan E Nelsonis Associate Clerkship Director, Harvard Medical School Internal Medicine Clerkship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1200-1185
Jason A Freedis Associate Program Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Internal Medicine Residency, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9123-8107
Tianyu Sissi Chenis an Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1110-0483
Monica Thimis Associate Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sarah Olofssonis an Instructor in Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4932-8878
Daniel N Ricottais Senior Director of Simulation Research, Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-2059

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40529272
PMCPMC12169053

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