Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher. Edition: 3
Perfect for new teachers in undergraduate, postgraduate, or continuing education, as well as more experienced educators who want to assess, improve, and gain new perspectives on teaching and learning, Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher is a useful, easy-to-read professional resource. This book offers a concise introduction to the field of medical education, with key coverage of educational models and theory that can help inform teaching practice. Clear illustrations and practical tips throughout make it an excellent starting point for those new to the field of medical education or who want to facilitate more effective learning for their students or trainees.
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Section 1 - Challenges you face as a teacher (Teaching responsibilities)
- What is expected of you as a teacher at a time of change
- What is outcome or competency based education
- Specifying the learning outcomes and competencies
- Describing and communicating the learning outcomes and competencies
- Twelve steps in establishing an outcome or competency based approach
- Entrustable Professional Activities
- The authentic curriculum
- Ten questions to ask when planning a curriculum
- Sequencing curriculum content and the spiral curriculum
- A student-centred approach and student engagement
- Building learning around clinical problems and presentations
- Using an integrated approach
- Interprofessional education (IPE)
- Clinical teaching in the curriculum
- Information overload, the core curriculum and electives
- The importance of the education environment
- Mapping the curriculum
- Selecting the teaching method
- Using sound educational principles
- Demonstrating passion for teaching
- Teaching large groups
- Learning in small groups
- Facilitating Independent learning
- Undertaking clinical teaching
- Making use of simulation
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Using peer and collaborative learning
- Your institution's assessment PROFILE
- Six questions to ask about assessment
- Written assessment
- Clinical and performance-based assessment
- Portfolio assessment
- Self-assessment
- Assessment for admission to medicine and postgraduate training
- Evaluating the curriculum
- Knowing what works and doesn't work
- Bringing about change
- The future of medical education
Section 2 - Specifying what students should learn (Outcome-based education)
Section 3 - Planning the curriculum (The Curriculum)
Section 4 - Helping the student to learn (The teacher's toolkit)
Section 5 - Checking that the student has learned (Assessment)
Section 6 - Planning for the future
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