Edinburgh University General Practice Teaching Unit

Teaching medical ethics: University of Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh Medical Group Research Project is unique in Britain. Part ofitsfunction is to experiment with teaching medical ethics both inside and outside of the Medical School. The papers whichfollow have been written by two full-time reseach fellows working with the Project and two of the professional advisers, one nursing and one medical. Together they give a picture of the wide scope of ex...

Undergraduate General Practice Teaching in the University of Bristol

Teachers in General Practice until the final year of the undergraduate curriculum.1,2 For these reasons it is worthwhile to review the present teaching arrangements and to examine whether or not there is any evidence that University of Bristol students are at a disadvantage in their learning opportunities. Since 1971, the General Practice teaching has taken place during a 9-week 'Medicine in the

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Systematic use of closed-circuit television in a general practice teaching unit.

We describe use of closed-circuit television in teaching general practice consulting skills in a new central teaching unit of a department of general practice.We explain how the system works, present a simple analysis of student performance in communicating with real and simulated patients and discuss the value of teaching from the consultation with closed-circuit television and video.

Teaching in practice: a survey of a general practice teaching network.

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 Göttingen teaching network. The response rate was 81% (...