BACKGROUND: Medical students receive their clinical training from various sources: from residents during informal teaching sessions and from attending physicians during more formalized rounds. As a result of the increasing pressures of clinical medicine, efforts need to be focused on the identification and training of the next generation of clinical ...

Calls for reforms in the ways we teach science at all levels, and in all disciplines, are wide spread. The effectiveness of the changes being called for, employment of student-centered, active learning pedagogy, is now well supported by evidence. The relevant data have come from a number of different disciplines ...

OBJECTIVE: To identify and address particular challenges in the teaching of epidemiological concepts to undergraduate students in non-clinical health disciplines. METHODS AND RESULTS: Relevant pedagogical literature was reviewed to identify a range of evidence-based teaching approaches. The authors also drew on their experience in curriculum development and teaching in this ...

BACKGROUND: Medical schools use supplemental peer-teaching programs even though there is little research on students' actual experiences with this form of instruction. PURPOSE: To understand the student experience of being taught by peers instead of by faculty. METHODS: We conducted focus groups with first- and second-year medical students participating in ...

BACKGROUND: Recruitment into psychiatry is correlated with the quality of undergraduate medical school teaching programmes and with a commitment of major resources to teaching students. There is an extensive literature related to attitudes towards psychiatry but less on the learning and teaching of psychiatry. AIMS: To identify the current issues ...

TOPIC: Peer consultation: A unique experiential model for P/MHNP students. PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to describe the consultation component of the Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Graduate Program at UMASS Lowell. The consultation requirement is described in the Professional Role competency as "provides consultation to healthcare providers and ...

Reports in the literature have attributed medical student fear of neurology to an inability to apply knowledge of the basic science to clinical situations. A teaching and learning initiative called case based teaching (CBT) was designed to help medical undergraduates integrate clinical neurology with the neuroscience that underpins it. In ...

Following the publication of Tomorrow's Doctors and as a result of increasing numbers of students recruited to medical school it is necessary to involve more general practitioners (family physicians) in undergraduate medical education. Students have responded positively regarding experiences in general practices with a broad spectrum of clinical conditions to ...

BACKGROUND: Our goal was to create surgical resident centered, interactive teaching modules rich in basic science and clinical content directly pertinent to patient care and surgical techniques that would facilitate education in the 80-h work week environment. METHODS: A systematic evaluation of available instructional tools determined that a technology-enhanced approach ...

This survey was organized in 2006 in France in order to investigate the status of the core curriculum of basic and clinical pharmacology (BCP) teaching hours (TH) in the 6 years training of medical studies. An open questionnaire was sent to 37 pharmacological teams with a 100% response rate. The ...

The recent trend towards ambulatory teaching can pose challenges in terms of recruitment of ambulatory teachers. In order to improve recruitment efforts, we examined the reasons that community preceptors who teach and those who do not teach give for teaching or not teaching students in their offices. Physicians who teach ...

PURPOSE: How medical students learn and develop the characteristics associated with good teaching in medicine is not well known. Information about this process can improve the academic preparation of medical students for teaching responsibilities. The purpose of this study was to determine how different experiences contributed to the knowledge, skills, ...

A blueprint for reform of medical education in Japan is presented, with the goal of training well rounded physicians who possess the ability to think critically and the clinical skill to function as generalists before they enter specialty training. Practical solutions are offered in three problem areas that lie at ...

BACKGROUND: Dermatology is one of many specialities competing for space in the undergraduate curriculum, and recent review reveals that in some medical schools only a minority of students receives direct teaching from dermatologists. Enlargement of medical schools and dispersion of students over multiple sites further increase the strain on teaching ...

OBJECTIVES: Effective clinical teaching in emergency departments (EDs) presents unique challenges. No validated approaches to enhancing ED teaching have been reported. The authors evaluated the effectiveness of a novel one-day evidence-based, skills-oriented faculty development course tailored to ED teachers (ED STAT!). METHODS: The authors invited all inaugural course registrants to ...

This study compared the self-rated with student-rated teaching styles of PBL tutors. We also examined the relationship between teaching styles of tutors' and students' evaluation of tutor effectiveness in tutorials. The study included 48 tutors and 276 medical students. Tutors, and students' were given a teaching style inventory with a ...

This paper explores the core teaching beliefs of medical school faculty and establishes whether these beliefs differ among basic science, clinical, and instruction specialist faculty. One hundred and twenty-five medical school teachers who were members of professional organizations dedicated to the improvement of medical school teaching completed a Q-sort of ...

AIM: In a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum, tutor's feedback skills are important. However, evaluation studies often show that students rate many tutors as ineffective in providing feedback. We explored whether this is related: (a) to tutors' skills, and hence a teaching intervention might improve their performance; (b) to the formulation ...

In the spirit of trying something new, we abandoned the traditional interpersonal process recording for an entirely new way to teach students about communication--an interpretive research group. We propose the interpretive research group as a strategy for teaching communication and analysis that encourages active student-faculty participation, provides for more egalitarian ...

The new medicine program at the University of New South Wales employs scenario-based learning with vertically integrated classes of year 1 and year 2 students, as well as horizontally integrated teaching with no discipline-specific courses. Coinciding with its introduction, we undertook comprehensive revision of the approach to teaching microscopic anatomy ...

Small-group teaching is particularly suited for complex skills such as communication. Existing work has identified the basic elements of small-group teaching, but few descriptions of higher-order teaching practices exist in the medical literature. Thus the authors developed an empirically driven and theoretically grounded model for small-group communication-skills teaching. Between 2002 ...

Bedside teaching is a valuable instructional method that facilitates the development of history and physical examination skills, the modeling of professional behaviors, and the direct observation of learners. The emergency department (ED) is an ideal environment for the practice of bedside teaching, because its high patient volume, increased acuity of ...

This commentary explores the development of assessment and its implications on the scholarship of teaching. Assessment and the scholarship of teaching's aim has been fixed on the practical and relevant, rarely furthering what we collectively know about student learning and development. As medical educators investigate important educational issues, informing assessment ...

Effective faculty development workshops are essential to develop and sustain the quality of faculty's teaching. In an integrated problem-based curriculum, tutors expressed the needs to further develop their skills in facilitating students' content learning and small-group functioning. Based on the authors' prior observations that tutors' performance depends on their teaching ...

INTRODUCTION: Many of the residents who supervise medical students in clinical practice are unfamiliar with the principles of effective supervision. Training in teaching skills is therefore seen as an effective strategy to improve the quality of clinical supervision. METHOD: Twenty seven medical residents were matched and assigned to an experimental ...

Interns are expected to teach medical students, yet there is little formal training in medical school to prepare them for this role. To enhance the teaching skills of our graduating students we initiated a 4-hour "teaching to teach" course as part of the end of the fourth-year curriculum. Course evaluations ...

The need for high-quality teaching practices and general practitioners (GPs) skilled in teaching is ever increasing. The authors determined the quality of teaching in the Göttingen general practice teaching network with regard to equipment, student participation and GPs' motivation for teaching. A questionnaire was mailed to all GPs in the ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Teaching physical examination skills effectively, consistently, and cost-effectively is challenging. Faculty time is the most expensive resource. One solution is to train medical students using lay physical examination teaching associates. In this study, we investigated the feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of training medical students using teaching associates ...

This article aims to help both experienced and new preceptors become more effective teachers while maintaining their clinical workloads. A variety of strategies is essential to increase teaching effectiveness and decrease stress for the busy preceptor who juggles the roles of teacher and clinician. The article will begin with a ...

This study has examined students' perceptions of the factors influencing learning during initial hospital placements and whether differences in perceived experiences were evident between students attending new and established teaching hospitals. Five focus groups were conducted with Year III students at the University of Birmingham Medical School (UBMS): three with ...

There are educational principles that apply to the teaching of professionalism during undergraduate education and postgraduate training. It is axiomatic that there is a single cognitive base that applies with increasing moral force as students enter medical school, progress to residency or registrar training, and enter practice. While parts of ...

BACKGROUND: Exposure therapy is effective for phobic anxiety disorders (specific phobias, agoraphobia, social phobia) and panic disorder. Despite their high prevalence in the community, sufferers often get no treatment or if they do, it is usually after a long delay. This is largely due to the scarcity of healthcare professionals ...

PURPOSE: This article is a review of the literature regarding teaching oncology to undergraduate medical students. METHODS: MEDLINE, Psychinfo, ERIC, TIMELIT, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane CENTRAL Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) were searched, using the search terms cancer, oncology, education, undergraduate, and teaching. RESULTS: The main findings can be ...

The use of role-playing ("active learning") as a teaching tool has been reported in areas as diverse as social psychology, history and analytical chemistry. Its use as a tool in the teaching of engineering ethics and professionalism is also not new, but the approach develops new perspectives when used in ...

Recently, educators and instructional designers have focused on the development and implementation of virtual learning environments that effectively combine theoretical and applied knowledge to teach university students. One of the trusts of the Psychology Virtual Teaching Laboratory in collaboration with the IXTLI observatory is to develop dissemination programs to promote ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To create a Web-based training program addressing the needs of a large, heterogeneous audience of users. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We defined our target group as consisting of medical professionals who teach radiology, or who, by their own perception, would benefit from improving their radiologic image interpretation skills. ...

Medical students currently interface more and more with community-based physicians, many of whom have little training or experience as educators. They also start their ambulatory experiences from the beginning of their medical school training, not just at the clerkship year. This has prompted substantial literature on the need for improved ...

Teaching nursing students therapeutic communication skills begins in the classroom and extends to the clinical environment. The usual method of instruction consists of random patient encounters observed by faculty and measures of competence that rely on paper-and-pencil tests. Using standardized patients (SPs) offers an alternative approach to the traditional method ...

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic transformation in the goals of science teaching at all levels and within all disciplines. The emphasis has moved from students obtaining a base of scientific facts to students developing a deep understanding of important concepts. This transformation requires a significant ...

OBJECTIVES: To promote independent self-study involving problem solving and decision analysis in the undergraduate medical curriculum, we have developed a series of interactive web-based clinical case studies. METHODS: An initial needs assessment was performed to determine students' attitudes to e-learning. From these results we designed a series of 30 interactive ...

Medical educators need to teach learners to efficiently access the best available evidence at the point of care and apply it in a patient-centered manner. As information becomes more readily available via the Internet and handheld computers, strategies to use these tools as part of the educational process become more ...

PURPOSE: To investigate the impact of an adjuvant Web-based teaching program on medical students' learning during clinical rotations. METHOD: From April 2003 to May 2004, 351 students completing clinical rotations in surgery-urology at four U.S. medical schools were invited to volunteer for the study. Web-based teaching cases were developed covering ...

OBJECTIVES: To characterise UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula and to identify opportunities and threats to teaching and learning. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire survey of UK medical schools enquiring about teaching and assessment, including future perspectives. PARTICIPANTS: The lead for teaching and learning at each medical school was invited to complete a ...

PURPOSE: Glass slides and standard microscopes associated to a brief review of the lectures with projection slides were used during practical training in histology and histopathology for many years. Today it is necessary to develop new tools to improve teaching, and to face a lower number of teachers, as well ...

Throughout the world, recent developments in medical curricula have led to marked changes in the teaching of gross anatomy. This change has involved decreasing curricular student contact time and the use of new methods for anatomical teaching. Some "modern" anatomists have welcomed the arrival of these novel methods while other, ...

Nominal group technique is a semi-quantitative/qualitative evaluative methodology. It has been used in health care education for generating ideas to develop curricula and find solutions to problems in programme delivery. This paper aims to describe the use of nominal group technique and present the data from nominal group evaluations of ...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate issues of curriculum in the context of a postgraduate sports medicine training programme, specifically in the field of clinical biochemistry and haematology. METHODS: Following the Delphi methodology, a series of sequential questionnaires was administered to curriculum developers, clinical teachers, examiners, and registrars. RESULTS: Agreement on a core ...

This paper presents a model that used a macro emphasis for teaching research using older adults. Faculty developed the teaching model to address three key areas of concern in the education of Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students for generalist practice: (1) research, (2) macro-level practice, and (3) aging. The ...

BACKGROUND: Medical colleges, which face dwindling financial resources, are often forced to rely on inexpensive means of providing students with relevant learning opportunities. PURPOSES: In this article, we present an evaluation of a novel animal model to be used to teach medical students, resident physicians, and allied health personnel advanced ...

There has been much written about web-based learning and teaching, this paper considers many of the issues raised previously but goes further in suggesting a model that is both easy to use from a teacher's perspective and through two case studies demonstrates the effectiveness of the model in online learning ...