Many clinical teachers acquire a working knowledge of the principles of teaching and learning through observation, by adopting positive and rejecting negative examples of clinical instruction. Well selected vignettes of teaching behaviours taken from contemporary film and literature may provide rich substrate by which to engage clinical teachers in discourse about instructional technique. This ...

abstractthe present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of esp instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional esp teachers. the main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of esp teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach esp. to find the answer, a questionnaire was ...

BACKGROUND Peer teaching is now used in medical education with its value increasingly being recognised. It is not yet established whether students differ in their satisfaction with teaching by peer-teachers compared to those taught by academic or clinical staff. This study aimed to establish satisfaction with communication skills teaching between these three teaching groups. METHODS Students ...

Every day, clinician teachers witness the shock experienced by new residents when they realize that a clinic is in a constant state of uncertainty. Undifferentiated complaints, diagnostic doubts, the familial, social, and cultural characteristics of the patient and his or her perspective, and the working environment and its imponderables are among the factors that cause residents to “lose their...

Views: Letters to the Editor 1721 advances in basic science enter the clinical realm every day, and therefore, during the precious years of formal education, veterinary students need to learn that a practitioner’s life is a constant struggle against obsolescence. Prier’s statement that practitioner-teachers should not be ignorant of scientific advances is one of the best reasons for teachers an...

Papers are indexed alphabetically within their theme What explanations do clinical teachers have for the underperformance of first year clinical minority ethnic medical students? A qualitative study K Woolf

In this paper the author argues that teachers have hardly ever liberated from their profession. They have been subjects of supervision by headmasters, officials, and inspectors. The development of in-service education of teachers (INSET) and teacher supervision show that teachers are under controlled by the system and administrators in one way or another; teachers have little chance of particip...

Casualisation of the academic workforce has resulted in an increase in the employment of sessional teachers in Bachelor of Nursing (BN) programs. Many of these teachers are drawn from specialty clinical areas and continue to work clinically while teaching part-time. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of sessional teachers about their perceived contribution to an undergraduate ...