Physicians are life-long learners and have a role as a life-long educator.
The Residents as Teachers program is part of the Foundations in Education Series for MedStar residents and fellows. The program provides an introduction to the basic skills for residents to become more effective teachers as they work alongside students, peers, health care professionals, and their patients. This program highlights the importance of creating a safe and effective learning environment as well as providing and receiving feedback. This program offers additional resources for professional development around medical education.
Need more resources? Reach out to Sarah Thornton, MD, FHM, Director, Residents as Teachers, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Medicine
sarah.c.thornton@medstar.net
This monthly update will feature quick tips for teaching, giving and receiving feedback, and improving the learning environment based on the literature and curated by Dr. Elizabeth Chawla and Dr. Sarah Thornton.
Guest author: Lydia Bunker, MD, hospitalist at MGUH The One-Minute Preceptor method provides a structured approach for clinical preceptors to integrate teaching into real-time interactions
Last month, we discussed methods of assessment in medical education. Milestones and EPAs are both methods of assessing trainees in a system of competency-based medical
Historically, assessment in medical education consisted of written and oral exams of medical knowledge. However, contemporary medical education recognizes the complexity of assessment and offers
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