Residents' Teaching Skills

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Book Review: Must-have for interns, residents, TAs & Program Directors.
Summary: 5 Stars

Today your Attending physician (or the Consultant) does not have enough time to teach the medical students. Some of them start to ask you many questions. Now the burden lies on you as a resident to teach them, but you are hesitant to do so ! You're worried about how to deliver the message using a simple and easy-to-follow method for teaching them.
Another scenario, you are on-call, and you ask your clinical clerk a question but she does not seem to be interested in answering you, since she is exhausted. The question is (How do you recognize the "teachabe moment"?).
As we can see, residents play an important role as teachers. In fact, they are responsible for as much as 80% of student teaching. They will be attending physicians one day, and they will have to teach medical students and other residents too. Teaching and communicating are a requirements for the competency of a physician. Now a question is raised (Who will teach the teachers?)

This book effecienctly provides practical guidance to plan, organize, and run a teaching skills program for medical residents.

It's well referenced and uses the most recent research in learning theories and clinical teaching strategies.

- The only obvious drawback of this book is its complicated language. Sometimes I had to re-read a paragraph to understand what te author wants to say.

This book is divided int 2 Parts:

Part 1 (Information and ideas) covers many chapters including:
(Sir William Osler), (Social learning theory and the development of clinical performance), (Clinical teaching techniques for residents), (Observing, developing, and reflecting on residents' teaching strategies), (Planning and implementing a teaching-skills improvement program for residents), (Residents as teachers: evaluating programs and performance), and (Interpretation and projections).

Part 2 (Materials for teaching-skills programs) covers 4 sections:

A). The role of the senior resident team: team manager, leader, and teacher.
Introduction, Course background and evaluation, Course description, Development of a resident teaching skills course, Teaching course Manual for residents, Supervising patient care, Attending interactions, Resident as teacher, Micro-skills of teaching, Feedback and evaluation, Problem behaviors in residents, Substance use, Sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Section B. Teaching materials for pediatric residents: three modules.
Module I: The student-teacher relationship.
Module II: Teaching in small groups.
Module III: Giving and receiving feedback.

Section C. Teaching skills modules.

Section D. Forms for evaluation of resident teaching-skills programs and resident performance.

It is the 1st edition (2002), and comes in 254 pages; published by Springer Pub Co, in a hardcover copy.

This book is recommended for Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the medical field, interns, residents, chief residents and Program Directors.

Another book I would recommend is (Teaching Tips: Strategies, Reseach, and Theory for College and University Teachers), 11th ed, 2002, for Wilbert J. McKeachie. This book uses simpler language and information, but it's not directed toward medical educators. However, I found it also very useful.

Enjoy reading & learning from this book !

Summary of Residents' Teaching Skills

"The editors have collected an impressive array of practical material that will guide any academic medical center in the development of a more focused approach to "teaching the teachers." From learning theory and program development to teaching performance evaluation and specialty-specific materials, Residents' Teaching Skills covers all the bases. I commend this volume to the attention of medical educators everywhere, and residency program directors in particular."
--from the Foreword by Jordon J. Cohen, MD, President, Association of American Medical Colleges

This book provides practical guidance to plan, organize, and run a teaching skills program for medical residents. Readers will find that Part Two offers exact materials for course use, including modules for use with pediatric residents, teaching clinical procedures, works rounds, and role play, plus evaluation forms that can be used as written or customized to fit a particular program.

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