Twelve tips for preparing residents as teachers
Background: Residents are frequently identified by medical students as their most frequent and memorable teachers; residents also teach their peers, junior and senior colleagues, other health professionals, and their patients. Many will teach in their future practice. Developing the skills to become...
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Published in | Medical teacher Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 301 - 306 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Informa UK Ltd
01.05.2007
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Background: Residents are frequently identified by medical students as their most frequent and memorable teachers; residents also teach their peers, junior and senior colleagues, other health professionals, and their patients. Many will teach in their future practice. Developing the skills to become a teacher is an important part of postgraduate education, and warrants a systematic, planned approach that may include many complementary learning opportunities.
Aims: Our purpose is to describe one such approach: a 4-week elective experience in medical education offered to postgraduate learners.
Method: The paper describes the background and goals for the elective, and the various steps in planning, implementing, and evaluating such a course, drawing on the literature and mining our own experience for examples. Specifically, we address the following: needs assessment; the determination and selection of content, sequence, and teaching and learning methods; the experiential learning opportunities offered; and the emphasis on the participants' developing self-awareness of themselves as teachers, and as part of a community of teachers.
Results: The program implementation, program evaluation, and response to feedback received are described.
Conclusion: A 4-week elective experience in medical education was positively received by participants. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-3 ObjectType-Review-1 |
ISSN: | 0142-159X 1466-187X |
DOI: | 10.1080/01421590701477431 |