Learn how to be an exceptional clinical educator while balancing your clinical duties. Discover strategies to engage learners in meaningful tasks, use educational prescriptions effectively, and implement structured reflections in medical education.
Implement bedside presentations to make teaching more efficient.
Promote self-directed learning to manage excessive questions from learners.
Deep dives
Efficient and Effective Teaching in Medical Education
This podcast episode delves into teaching efficiently and effectively in medical education, primarily focusing on medical students. The discussion emphasizes the importance of identifying individual barriers to being a good educator and provides strategies to overcome common challenges like feeling that learners can't help, their presentations are lengthy, and they ask too many questions.
Strategies for Enhancing Learner Presentations
To address the issue of presentations taking too long, the podcast recommends practical solutions. These include implementing bedside presentations where the student presents in front of the patient, utilizing the 'bust into the exam room' approach to observe and guide learners efficiently, focusing on the learner's specific clinical skills, and setting clear expectations for patient visits and information sharing.
Promoting Self-Directed Learning and Alternative Experiences
The podcast introduces strategies to manage learners asking too many questions by promoting self-directed learning. It suggests encouraging learners to ask relevant questions, providing educational prescriptions with resources to support learning, utilizing a notebook for tracking questions, and engaging in alternative learning experiences such as preparing for the next patient, creating schemas for disease processes, and structured reflections. These approaches aim to enhance the teaching experience and optimize learning outcomes.
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Strategies for Efficient and Effective Clinical Teaching in Medical Education
Teaching in the clinical environment can be... challenging. Learners are so enthusiastic, so engaged, and can require soooo much attention! In this podcast, we discuss ways to remain a kick-ass clinical educator and still have the time you need to be a, well, a clinician.