Top Ten Clinical Teaching Pearls
From David Aizenberg, MD, FACP, Nadia Bennett, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Leslie Kersun, MD, MSCE, MSEd, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Jeanine Ronan, MD, MS, MSEd, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, and Corrie Stankiewicz, M.D., MSEd, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Be deliberate: think out loud, explain your reasoning
- Encourage learners to step up, then you stand back
- Provide articles
- Teach around examples
- Utilize role playing
- Use diagrams when able
- Generate discussions, use basic science mechanisms to help generate accurate hypotheses
- Start with easy questions
- Signpost your teaching
- Set the stage (and expectations)
*Bonus Tip: Have Fun!
Resources
- Clinical Teaching: Best Practices Tip Sheet
- Effective Supervision: Best Practices Tip Sheet
- Defining and Quantifying Teaching and Educational Effort
- Penn Med Ed Masters Degree
- Quick Guides and Micro-Learning Videos from VitalTalk for Improving Clinical Communication
- Workbook for Tracking Teaching
- Workshops+
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