Teaching and learning styles in the clinical setting.

(Fam Med 2001;33(5):344-6.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, John Langlois, MD, and Sarah Thach, MPH, of the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC, examine teaching and learning styles and provide a practical style assessment tool. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to Paul Paulman, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, 983075 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-3075. 402-559-6818. Fax: 402-559-6501. [email protected]. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text.