BACKGROUND Teaching is a key component of medical practice, but medical students receive little formal training to develop their teaching skills. A longitudinal Students as Teachers (SAT) program was created at the University of Toronto to provide medical students with opportunities to acquire an understanding of educational pedagogy and practice teaching early in their medical training. This p...

BACKGROUND Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal lea...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY A 6-month faculty development programme was designed to improve supervisors' feedback to junior doctors on their clinical communication skills (CS) and included both CS and teaching skills training. The aim of this study was to assess supervisors' views on the impact of the programme on their subsequent teaching and communication practice. STUDY DESIGN 28 clinical supervi...

many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. however, this belief is not without its own opponents. to many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. the ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

In addition to teaching and research, nurse lecturers are expected to maintain clinical credibility and competence by spending at least 20% of their time in practice; this requirement is included in many nurse lecturer/teacher employment contracts. The a imof this paper is to suggest a number of realistic, pragmatic approaches that can be used to enhance clinical credibility and competence, whi...

BACKGROUND Expanding clinical teaching opportunities is essential for securing a sustainable health workforce. Although Tasmanian general practitioners (GPs) are keen to provide learning opportunities for medical students, they have identified time pressures due to a need to meet patient service demand and a need for more guidance on effective clinical teaching, as factors impacting their abili...

Introduction. Quality assessment of medical student’s knowledge and way of practical and laboratory teaching is one of the priority studies in medical Education. The aim of this study is going over these skills in different majors of Babol Medical University, in order to improve the Quality and Circumstances of education. Methods. This descriptive- analytical study was performed as cross-secti...

BACKGROUND Peer observation of Teaching involves observers providing descriptive feedback to their peers on learning and teaching practice as a means to improve quality of teaching. This study employed and assessed peer observation as a constructive, developmental process for members of a Pediatric Teaching Faculty. METHODS This study describes how peer observation was implemented as part of ...

BACKGROUND Medical students, junior hospital doctors on rotation and general practice (GP) registrars are undertaking their training in clinical general practices in increasing numbers in Australia. Some practices have four levels of learner. This study aimed to explore how multi-level teaching (also called vertical integration of GP education and training) is occurring in clinical general prac...

Medical professionalism is a multi-dimensional construct. Teaching the culture-specific, context-based and societal characteristics of medical professional are challenging. This work identifies the teaching strategies for medical professionalism drawn from the published articles that have validated their effectiveness through some objective measures. In May 2016, the databases of ISI web of kno...