BACKGROUND Residents have primary responsibility for teaching medical students, yet many receive no formal teaching instruction. This study evaluated the impact of a longitudinal multidisciplinary teaching curriculum on resident participants' self-perceived teaching skills. METHODS Residents received instruction on teaching and leadership skills during a four-month longitudinal teaching cours...

conclusions concept mapping was superior to conventional skill teaching methods. it is suggested to use concept mapping in teaching practical courses such as fundamentals of nursing. results before education, no significant differences were observed between the two groups in the three skills of cleaning (p = 0.251), injection (p = 0.185) and sterilizing (p = 0.568). the students mean scores wer...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on teaching-skills training programs for family medicine residents and to identify formats and content of these programs and their effects. DATA SOURCES Ovid MEDLINE (1950 to mid-July 2008) and the Education Resources Information Center database (pre-1966 to mid-July 2008) were searched using and combining the MeSH terms teaching, internship and residency, a...

BACKGROUND Although teleconsultations have been used for many years in Australia, there has been a recent increase following new government incentives. There is a paucity of literature on enabling medical students to acquire the relevant skills. With a focus on equipping students for practice in rural and remote areas, our medical school has developed an innovative clinical skills lesson to pre...

Often when designing an educational tool, the focus is primarily on how well the tool helps the student learn a concept. However, always in educational research there is an underlying desire to determine what factors actually influence student learning. This is because an understanding of these factors can lead to the design of more effective tools/techniques. The focus of our research has been...

The medical education literature was reviewed in four categories: (1) general studies of house officer teaching, (2) perceptions of the house officer's teaching role, (3) assessing and improving resident teaching skills, and (4) the teaching role of surgery residents. An agenda for research and development related to surgery resident teaching skills was proposed based on four research questions...

Research has revealed a significant gap between the thinking patterns and software design habits of students or recent computer science university graduates, and those of expert software developers. There may be several causes for this gap, one of which is undoubtedly the fact that throughout their studies students are mostly asked to write software programs of relatively limited scope, and are...