Advanced Clinical Teaching Skills Suggested Readings

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Faculty of Medicine, McGillUniversity

Advanced Clinical Teaching Skills – Suggested Readings

Clinical Teaching: At the Bedside

Schwenk TL, Whitman NA.Bedside teaching. In: The Physician as Teacher, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Williams and Wilkins; 1997. p. 181-202.

Linfors EW, Neelan FA.The case for bedside rounds. N Engl J Med. 1980;303:1230-3.

Mooradian NL, Caruso JW, Kane GC.Increasing the time faculty spend atthe bedside during teaching rounds. Acad Med. 2001;76(2):200.

Nair BR, Coughlan JL, HensleyMJ. Student and patient perspectives on bedside teaching. Med Educ. 1997;31(5):341-6.

Simons RJ, BailyRG, Zelis R, Zwillich CW.The physiologic andpsychological effects of the bedside presentation. N Engl J Med. 1989;321(18):1273-5.

Clinical Teaching: In the Office

DaRosa DA, Dunnington GL, Stearns J, Ferenchick G, Bowen JL, SimpsonDE.Ambulatory teaching "lite": less clinic time, more educationally fulfilling. Acad Med. 1997;72(5):358-61.

Ferenchick, G, Simpson, D, Blackburn, J, DaRosa, D, Dunnington, G. Strategies for efficient and effective teaching in the ambulatory care setting.Acad Med. 1997;72(4):277-80.

Irby DM, Ramsey PG, Gillmore GM, Schaad D.Characteristics of effectiveclinical teachers of ambulatory care medicine. Acad Med. 1991;66(1):54-5.

Irby DM. Teaching and learning in ambulatory care settings: a thematic review of the literature. Acad Med. 1995;70(10):898-931.

Lesky LG, Borkan SC.Strategies to improve teaching in the ambulatory medicine setting. Arch Intern Med. 1990;150(10):2133-7.

Rubenstein W, Talbot Y.Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care. New York: Springer Publishing Company; 1992.

Teaching Technical and Procedural Skills: From Theory to Practice

Cauraugh JH, Martin M, Martin KK.Modeling surgical expertise for motor skill acquisition. Am J Surg. 1999;177(4):331-6.

McLeod PJ, Steinert Y, Trudel J, Gottesman R.Seven principles for teaching procedural and technical skills.Acad Med. 2001;76(10):1080.

Reznick RK.Teaching and testing technical skills. Am J Surg. 1993;165(3):358-61.

Thomas H Jr.Teaching procedural skills: beyond “seeone – do one”.Acad Emerg Med. 1994 Jul-Aug;1(4):398-401.

Hedges JR.Pearls for the teaching of procedural skills at the bedside. Acad Emerg Med. 1994 Jul-Aug;1(4):401-4.

Giving Feedback

Ende J.Feedback in clinical medical education. JAMA. 1983;250(6):777-81.

Frye AW, Hollingsworth MA, Wymer A, Hinds MA.Dimensions of feedback in clinical teaching: a descriptive study.Acad Med. 1996 Jan;71(1 Suppl):S79-81.

Kaprielian VS, Gradison M.Effective use of feedback. Fam Med. 1998;30(6):406-7.

Spickard A 3rd.Words hard to say and hard to hear: “May I give you some feedback?”J Gen Intern Med. 1998 Feb;13(2):142-3.

Westberg J, Jason H.Providing Constructive Feedback.Boulder (CO):Center for Instructional Support; 1991.

Westberg J, Jason H. Fostering Reflection and Providing Feedback, HelpingOthers Learn from Experience.New York: Springer; 2001.

Teaching When There is No Time to Teach

Houlden R, Collier C, Frid P. Questioning in medical education: enhancing this active learning tool.Ann R Coll Physicians Surg Can. 1999;32(5):291-5.

Whitman N.Creative Medical Teaching. Salt Lake City: University of Utah School of Medicine Press; 1990.

Good web references to the “one-minute teacher”. The whole web site ‘trainer.org’ is worth exploring as it has many useful tools and resources for teaching.