This paper outlines twelve tips for undertaking peer observation of teaching in medical education, using the peer review model and the experiences of the authors. An accurate understanding of teaching effectiveness is required by individuals, medical schools, and universities to evaluate the learning environment and to substantiate academic and institutional performance. Peer Observation of Tea...

OBJECTIVE This research explored the assessment of self-directed learning readiness within the comprehensive evaluation of medical students' knowledge and skills and the extent to which several variables predicted participants' self-directed learning readiness prior to their graduation. METHODS Five metrics for evaluating medical students were considered in a multiple regression analysis. Fou...

From pre-enrollment assessments, through medical education and post-graduate training, medical schools are trying to educate and facilitate the development of their students so that they become exemplary experts in their future fields. Yet despite the long history of medical education, scientific research has failed to provide correlations between medical schools education processes and achieve...

This paper considers the early years of the Yale Plan of Medical Education, which has come to be called the Yale System. It chronicles and analyzes the incremental development of the System and considers evaluations of the plan and modifications introduced over time. Also considered are external factors which influenced design and implementation. The paper covers the period of medical education...

BACKGROUND Residency programs use electronic portfolios (efolios) to organize data, track resident performance, and sometimes teach and assess lifelong learning (LLL) skills. Published studies on efolios in graduate medical education are mostly descriptions of implementation at individual institutions. METHODS An anonymous online survey was sent to 199 pediatric residency program directors ac...

OBJECTIVE To improve compliance with the completion of speakers' evaluation forms in a pediatric hospital continuing medical education program. DESIGN Preintervention and postintervention analysis. SETTING Pediatric hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. PARTICIPANTS Attendees at pediatric grand rounds programs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Analysis of speaker evaluation forms for each of 20 pediatric g...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to determine the effectiveness of a hands-on continuing education program for practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists (CAPs) with a focus on best practices in transitioning psychiatric patients to college. The plan was to build on the unique knowledge and skill set of CAPs, use audience and facilitator feedback from prior programs to inform program...

Qualitative evaluations of courses prove difficult due to low response rates. Online courses may permit the analysis of qualitative feedback provided by health care providers (HCPs) during and after the course is completed. This study describes the use of qualitative methods for an online continuing medical education (CME) course through the analysis of HCP feedback for the purpose of quality i...

Assessment of GP training has historically shown differences in performance according to ethnicity and sex.1 A recent meta-analysis2 shows that ethnic differences in attainment are a consistent feature of medical education in the UK, ‘being present across medical schools, exam types, and undergraduate and postgraduate assessments, and have persisted for at least the past three decades’. The mos...

Dear Editor, Tette et al. present a fascinating insight into the utility of autopsies from the point of view of clinicians at their institution (1). Importantly, the majority of respondents felt that autopsies were useful for the purpose of medical education. However, despite this, only a minority of clinicians attended autopsy sessions and there was clearly limited interaction between clinicia...