OBJECTIVE Practical skills are an essential part of physicians' daily routine. Nevertheless, medical graduates' performance of basic skills is often below the expected level. This review aims to identify and summarize teaching approaches of basic practical skills in undergraduate medical education which provide evidence with respect to effective students' learning of these skills. METHODS Bas...

BACKGROUND Physicians are often insufficiently trained in bedside teaching and mentoring skills. OBJECTIVES To develop, implement and assess a simulation-based training program designed to improve clinical teaching among physicians. METHODS We developed a one-day tutor training program based on six simulated scenarios with video-based debriefing. The program's efficacy was assessed using qu...

BACKGROUND To prepare for careers in medicine, medical trainees must develop clinical teaching skills. It is unclear if Canadian medical students need or want to develop such skills. We sought to assess Canadian students' perceptions of clinical teaching, and their desire to pursue clinical teaching skills development via a clinical teaching elective (CTE) in their final year of medical school....

BACKGROUND Peer assisted learning is known as an effective educational strategy in medical teaching. We established a peer assisted teaching program by student tutors with a focus on clinical competencies for students during their practical training on paediatric wards. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effects of a clinical skills training by tutors, residents and consultants...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microteaching, a teacher training technique currently practiced worldwide, provides teachers an opportunity to perk up their teaching skills by improving the various simple tasks called teaching skills. with the proven success among the novice and seniors, microteaching helps to promote real-time teaching experiences. the core skills of microteachin...