BACKGROUND: The One Minute Preceptor (OMP) faculty development workshop is aimed at improving outpatient preceptors' abilities to teach in ambulatory settings. Practice applying the 5 microskills is central to learning the OMP, yet participants frequently avoid the role-playing portion of the standard workshop. Task complexity may result in significant cognitive ...

Drawing on extensive evidence and experience in human medicine, this article offers a practical conceptual framework for thinking more precisely about how to teach and learn communication systematically and intentionally in veterinary medicine. The overarching goal is to promote the development of communication programs so as to improve communication in ...

Confidence and proficiency in diagnosing and treating a variety of diseases is of obvious importance to veterinary students. Traditional teaching methods relying on live-animal laboratories or teaching-hospital cases may not provide the breadth and depth of experience necessary to promote optimal development of confidence and skills. These settings also raise ...

INTRODUCTION: Recently, there has been a shift away from practising procedures on patients for the first time and towards bench model teaching of clinical skills to undergraduate medical students. However, guidelines for the most effective instructor : student ratio for technical skills training are unclear. This has important implications for ...

The term ''emotional intelligence'' (EI) has become very popular in the business world and has recently infiltrated veterinary medical education. The term purports to encompass those qualities and skills that are not measured by IQ tests but do play an important role in achieving success in life. Veterinary medical educators ...

BACKGROUND: A variety of methods exists for teaching and learning evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, there is much debate about the effectiveness of various EBM teaching and learning activities, resulting in a lack of consensus as to what methods constitute the best educational practice. There is a need for a clear ...

BACKGROUND: Resident-led morning report is an integral part of most residency programs and is ranked among the most valuable of educational experiences. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of a resident-as-teacher educational intervention on the educational and teaching experience of morning report. METHODS: All senior internal ...

AIM: The aim of the study was to explore the different ways in which doctors have learned to teach and train. INTRODUCTION: There is no coherent theory of medical teacher development. Doctors are experts in what they teach; most have had little or no training in how they teach. Research ...

Many nuclear medicine technologists become clinical educators by chance, with little introduction to teaching methodologies and student learning styles. This means that most technologists teach students in the clinic by modeling the way in which they were taught in nuclear medicine school, a method that may not be effective for ...

BACKGROUND: Drug administration error is a major problem causing substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. Lack of education about drug administration appears to be a causative factor. We devised an online teaching module for medical students and assessed its short- and long-term efficacy. METHODS: One hundred and thirty clinical medical students ...

The bio-psychosocial (BPS) approach to patient care has gained acceptance in medical education. However, reported teaching programs rarely describe the efficacy of alternative approaches to continuing medical education aimed at promoting a BPS approach. The objective was to describe and evaluate the effect of two teaching programs on learners' BPS ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of teaching about back pain to medical students using trained patient partners (PP). METHODS: An initial training programme for four PPs (two with sciatica and two with ankylosing spondylitis) followed by teaching to alternate groups of medical students at the Whittington Campus of the Royal ...

PURPOSE: To identify specific learning activities (and teaching methods) that students associate with high-quality teaching in the inpatient setting. METHOD: For ten months in 2003-04, 170 third-year medical students recorded data on learning/feedback activities and teaching quality via personal digital assistants during the inpatient portion of a required two-month medicine ...

CONTEXT: The Australian University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) program aims to improve the rural workforce through improving rural experiences of undergraduates, graduates and health professionals. The 10 UDRHs vary in the way they implement the UDRH Program. This article describes the development of a compulsory, experiential and inter-professional rural ...

Three approaches to teaching and learning are introduced. Each approach has its relative merits and disadvantages. Ideally, each approach should not be used in isolation. The use of facilitatory approaches to teaching and learning should be encouraged to assist the development of problem solving, decision making skills and creative and ...

BACKGROUND: To the best of the authors' knowledge, there are no reports describing what learners believe are good emergency medicine (EM) teaching practices. EM faculty developers are compromised by this lack of knowledge about what EM learners appreciate in their teachers. OBJECTIVES: To determine what Canadian EM learners consider to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Teaching about evidence-based medicine (EBM) is widespread, yet physicians still use rapid references preferentially over EBM techniques such as literature searching and appraisal of original research. The Internet now provides rapid access to preappraised evidence. We provided clinically integrated teaching of using the Internet to answer clinical ...

CONTEXT: Critical-thinking skills require the radiographer to analyze, evaluate and synthesize situations to determine a course of action most beneficial to the patient. OBJECTIVE: For radiography educators, it is important to understand how critical-thinking skills are acquired during the educational process for each student to reach his or her maximum ...

Recently, there has been a focus on the teaching of professionalism in postgraduate medical education. Many discussions and studies have been performed to help in teaching professionalism and in the evaluation of the effectiveness of this teaching process. Unfortunately, many anesthesiologists are unaware of the literature and the discussions that ...

Clinical learning in restorative dentistry is principally centred around the provision of patient care, yet we know very little about the learning processes occurring within the clinical environment. A study of undergraduate dental student clinical practice used a combination of group interview and questionnaire techniques to explore some of the ...

BACKGROUND: The long-term impact of longitudinal faculty development programs (FDPs) is not well understood. OBJECTIVE: To follow up past participants in the Johns Hopkins Faculty Development Program in Teaching Skills and members of a comparison group in an effort to describe the long-term impact of the program. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: ...

BACKGROUND: Most studies of effective inpatient teaching have focused on teaching by attending physicians. OBJECTIVE: To identify and compare medical students' perceptions of behaviors associated with teaching effectiveness of attending physicians and housestaff (residents and interns). DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Third-year students who spent 4 weeks on a general internal medicine ...

INTRODUCTION: Medical student numbers in Britain are increasing rapidly, beyond the capacity of most teaching hospitals, with more clinical teaching taking place in district general hospitals (DGHs). Surveys show that students value the intensive clinical teaching, smaller student numbers and perceived greater friendliness in DGHs. This paper explores DGH staff ...

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP), an intensive faculty development program at Harvard Medical School. METHOD: PCEP is a two-week program offered annually with two on-site sessions in Boston, MA, and an interim period distance-learning component. Training integrates palliative care clinical ...

Increasing student numbers and changes in healthcare delivery are making inpatient settings less ideal for teaching undergraduate students. As the focus of healthcare provision shifts towards ambulatory care, increasing attention must now be given to developing opportunities for clinical teaching in this setting. This Education Guide describes the opportunities to ...

Current trends in undergraduate medical education are moving away from traditional ward based learning to ambulatory care teaching. We wanted to know whether students gain more learning outcomes from a dedicated ambulatory teaching environment than a conventional outpatient clinic. A comparative evaluation study using a semi-structured student questionnaire and a ...

AIM: To determine whether the students enrolled in the computer-based teaching program would take the final examination in pathology earlier than those who studied according to the previous traditional program. METHODS: The study included all medical students enrolled in the pathology course at the Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, ...

OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe interacting domains that are present during undergraduate psychiatric teaching and impress on educators the roles of these domains. CONCLUSIONS: Undergraduate psychiatric teaching is an essential part of general family physicians' training and practice. Undergraduate students' exposure to psychiatry might be inadequate. Curricular goals, teaching and ...

The focus on fundamental clinical skills in undergraduate medical education has declined over the last several decades. Dramatic growth in the number of faculty involved in teaching and increasing clinical and research commitments have contributed to depersonalization and declining individual attention to students. In contrast to the close teaching and ...

OBJECTIVE: This article reviews methods used to teach psychopharmacology to psychiatry residents that utilize principles of adult learning, enlist active participation of residents, and provide faculty with skills to seek, analyze, and use new information over the course of their careers. METHODS: The pros and cons of five "nonlecture" methods ...

The objectives of teaching evidence-based surgery (EBS) are to inform and convince that EBS is a method of interrogation, reasoning, appraisal, and application of information to guide physicians in their decisions to best treat their patients. Asking the right, answerable questions, translating them into effective searches for the best evidence, ...

OBJECTIVE: To review the current status of psychopharmacology education for medical students, residents, and practitioners in psychiatry and other specialties. METHODS: A search of the MEDLINE and PsychInfo data bases was conducted using four keywords: pharmacology, psychopharmacology, teaching, and student. Additional references were obtained from citations in these articles. Published ...

Three common instructional strategies used to teach gross anatomy are lecture, discovery or inquiry-based learning, and cooperative learning. One form of cooperative learning, called reciprocal peer teaching (RPT), illustrates circumstances where students alternate roles as teacher and student. By assuming the responsibility of teaching their peers, students not only improve ...

There are numerous resources available to help educators of medical students improve their methods of instruction. For example, several Internet sites exist that describe specific ways to teach and reinforce concepts basic to emergency medicine. Some of these sites also allow users to share their own experiences and teaching techniques. ...

AIM: This paper presents the results of an exploratory project undertaken to evaluate the change to teaching and learning of surgical specialties in the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing (Perioperative) conducted at La Trobe University,Victoria, Australia. BACKGROUND: The teaching of perioperative nursing practices has traditionally been based on the medical ...

Caring for bereaved parents after the death of a baby is emotionally challenging for midwives. There is a lack of discussion and debate in the literature of how student midwives are prepared to undertake this role. This article describes the way student midwives undertaking 3 year and 18 month courses, ...

Education in anesthesiology offers a variety of unique forums. Examples include focused teaching in the operating room, bedside teaching in critical care settings, and simulations. Many approaches are used by educators with a wide range of effectiveness. Each training program creates its own combination of educational techniques designed to meet ...

Web-based teaching was strategically used to supplement classroom instruction in an epidemiology course for RN-to-BSN students. This article investigates how the "Seven Principles for Good Practice" were applied as a guide when teaching this online course and discusses this innovative teaching strategy with the aim of advancing pedagogical strategies from ...

BACKGROUND: Communication skills are widely taught in US medical schools, but in Lebanon, such teaching is in its infancy. METHODS: At the American University of Beirut, we piloted a communication skills teaching package using video scenarios in Arabic. A total of 150 second-year medical students addressed eight communication issues in ...

Gump in 2004 identified a positive significant relationship between awareness of daily class objectives and ratings of the instructor's overall teaching effectiveness. The idea that rating of teaching effectiveness can be related to other non-teaching related attributes of the lecturer was further examined. Correlations based on ratings of teaching effectiveness ...

AIM: To explore how clinicians perceive their roles in problem-based medical education, and how closely those perceptions link to the curriculum they teach. METHOD: All 14 general physicians in a teaching hospital took part in 6 semistructured discussions, which were analysed phenomenologically. RESULTS: Third year clinical teaching was described in ...

Self-awareness is an individual's tendency to pay attention to his or her own emotions, attitudes, and behavior in response to specific situations. In the case of physicians, self-awareness is their insight into how their emotional makeup influences patient care. Conceivably, such insight may improve doctors' professional performance. The authors review ...

Educators rarely consider the attitudes that determine whether a learner will use the clinical skills we teach. Nevertheless, many learners and practitioners exhibit negative attitudes that can impede the use of patient-centered skills, leading to an isolated focus upon disease and impairing the provider-patient relationship. The problem is compounded because ...

At the University of Washington, a group of medical educators defined a set of communication skills, or "benchmarks," that are expected of second-year medical students conducting history and physical examinations on hospitalized patients. In order to teach the skills listed in the communication benchmarks, an educational strategy was devised that ...

This paper reports student (n = 180) feedback on the role-play teaching methodology used in behavioural sciences teaching at The School of Dentistry in Birmingham (UK). The feedback received on this well-established (since 1995) educational programme was collected via questionnaire (100% response rate), requiring Likert scale and free text responses. ...

A clinical teaching method involving stories was evaluated in this study. A total of 25 ASN and BSN students participated in Phase I evaluation and another 16 ASN students were included in Phase II. Each student created a story about an obstetric or a pediatric topic. The story was then ...

Academic exchanges between the U.S. and other countries around the world are increasing and teaching students abroad is part of this trend. China is in its initial stage of developing gerontology education and is in great need of new concepts and ideas for dealing with its rapidly aging population. This ...

The objective of this investigation was to ascertain whether and how the introduction of a new technology (WebCT) influenced faculty teaching styles while facilitating small group problem-based learning (PBL) sessions in a professional veterinary medical (PVM) program. The following questions guided the study: (1) How does the use of technology ...

TOPIC: Lessons learned from teaching web-based courses: the 7-year itch. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Increased sophisticated technological communications are rapidly changing the teaching and learning environment. Nursing educators must respond by developing new ways of teaching. Because of these changes, new ways of teaching, course delivery methods, and classroom environments are ...

Communication skills and the psychosocial dimensions of patient care are increasingly taught in medical schools and generalist residency programs. Evidence suggests they are not reinforced or optimally implemented in clinical training. The authors present the product of an iterative process that was part of a national faculty development program and ...