Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher, 2nd Edition
An Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Medicine
Authors :
Ronald M. Harden & Jennifer M Laidlaw
Date of Publication: 07/2016
Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher is a perfect introduction for new teachers to the exciting opportunities facing them, whether they are working in undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education. It will also be of considerable use to more ...view more
Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher is a perfect introduction fornew teachers to the exciting opportunities facing them, whether they are working in undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education. It will also be of considerable use tomore experienced teachers to review and assess their own practice and gain a new perspective on howbest tofacilitate their students' or trainees' learning. The contents are based on the authors’ extensive experience of what works in medical education, whether in teaching and curriculum planning or in the organisation of faculty development courses in medical education at basic and advanced levels.
Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher is a perfect introduction fornew teachers to the exciting opportunities facing them, whether they are working in undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education. It will also be of considerable use tomore experienced teachers to review and assess their own practice and gain a new perspective on howbest tofacilitate their students' or trainees' learning. The contents are based on the authors’ extensive experience of what works in medical education, whether in teaching and curriculum planning or in the organisation of faculty development courses in medical education at basic and advanced levels.
New to this edition
Medical Education is changing rapidly and this new edition takes full account of a number of important recent developments.
The text is fully updated after a thorough review of the medical education literature.
Five new chapters are incorporated:
The teacher is important
Collaborations in the delivery of the education programme
The authentic curriculum
Student engagement
Inter-professional education
New concepts added to the book include:
Content specification as ‘threshold’ concepts
Entrustable professional activities as an approach to outcomes
Longitudinal integrated clinical clerkships as part of clinical teaching
Integration of basic and clinical sciences
Refinement and expansion of the FAIR principles
Additional references to further reading.
Key Features
The text provides hints drawn from practical experience to help teachers create powerful learning opportunities for their students, providing readable guidelines and introducing new techniques that potentially could be adopted for use in any teaching programme.
Throughout the book introduces some key basic principles that underpin the practical advice that is given and which will help to inform teaching practice.
This book will assist readers to reflect on and analyse with colleagues the different ways that their work as a teacher or trainer can be approached and how their student or trainee's learning can be made more effective.
Author Information
By Ronald M. Harden, OBE MD FRCP(Glas) FRCSEd FRCPC, Professor (Emeritus) Medical Education, University of Dundee, UK, Editor Medical Teacher, UK and Jennifer M Laidlaw, DipEdTech MMEd, Formerly Assistant Director, Education Development Unit, Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education and the University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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