Department of Surgery

Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center

Ref. No. m04-38

Date: April 4, 2004

TO: All Consultants and Residents

FROM: Chairperson

RE: Medical Anecdotal Report/Reporting

Medical Anecdotal Report/Reporting (MAR)

Medical Anecdotal Report (MAR), by an operational definition, is a brief written report on an actual medical event that involves an actual patient seen by the reporter (who may be a surgical consultant, resident, or intern).  The medical observation must have an impact on the reporter as a physician in terms of insight gained and which the reporter thinks is worth sharing with colleagues as this might help improve patient care and as part of the knowledge management system.  The insight may come in three forms, namely: a discovery; a stimulus for investigation and research; and  a reinforcement or validation of previously held philosophy and principles.

Medical Anecdotal Report is essentially a written case report. However, brevity and informality of the report will be used to differentiate it from the traditional case report.

Starting April, 2004, Medical Anecdotal Reporting will be used in the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center as a way of teaching and learning of medicine and surgery.  It will also be incorporated in the Knowledge Management System of the Department.

Each resident will be required to submit at least one MAR per month.

The MAR should be posted in the Department’s egroup at a frequency of at least one or at most two a month. 

The MAR should also be posted in the journal of the resident.

The MAR should be brief – one page only.

The MAR should carry the specified format (see sample – RJOSON’s Medical Anecdoctal Report [04-1]).

Indexing Title:

RJOSON’s Medical Anecdotal Report [04-1]

MAR Title:

Patient with Hypopharyngeal Cancer; S/P Total Pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy (1997)

Date of Medical Observation: April 1, 2004

Narration:

Insights (Discovery, Stimulus, REINFORCEMENT):

Note: Underline which is the predominant one.

Anybody reading the MAR may react. 

Reynaldo O. Joson, MD, MHA, MHPEd, MS Surg

Chairperson