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A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers

  • 6th Edition - April 24, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: John Dent, Ronald M. Harden, Dan Hunt
  • Language: English

Highly regarded in the field of medical education, A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides accessible, highly readable, and practical information for those involved in basi… Read more

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Highly regarded in the field of medical education, A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides accessible, highly readable, and practical information for those involved in basic science and clinical medicine teaching. The fully updated 6th Edition offers valuable insights into today’s medical education.  Input from global contributors who offer an international perspective and multi-professional approach to topics of interest to all healthcare teachers. With an emphasis on the importance of developing educational skills in the delivery of enthusiastic and effective teaching, it is an essential guide to maximizing teaching performance.

Key features

  • Offers comprehensive, succinct coverage of curriculum planning and development, assessment, student engagement, and more
  • Includes 10 new chapters that discuss the international dimension to medical education, clinical reasoning, the roles of teachers, mentoring, burnout and stress, the patient as educator, professional identity, curriculum and teacher evaluation, how students learn, and diversity, equality and individuality
  • Delivers the knowledge and expertise of more than 40 international contributors
  • Features helpful boxes highlighting practical tips, quotes, and trends in today’s medical education
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Teachers and trainers in medicine, whether engaged in undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education. Students of postgraduate / masters programmes in medical education. Medical curriculum developers, student advisors or education researchers

Table of contents

SECTION 1 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

1 The Medical School of the Future
John A Dent, Ronald M Harden and Dan Hunt

2 Curriculum Planning and Development
Mark Edward Quirk and Ronald M Harden

3 The Undergraduate Curriculum
Joel Lanphear and Marie Matte

4 Postgraduate Medical Education: A ‘Pipeline’ to Competence
Linda Snell, Jason R Frank and Yousef Marwan

5 Continuing Professional Development
Samar Aboulsoud

6 The Hidden Curriculum,
Elizabeth Gaufberg and Fred W Hafferty

7 The International Dimension of Medical Education
Trevor John Gibbs, Yingzi Huang and David Taylor

SECTION 2 LEARNING SITUATIONS

8 How Students Learn
Heeyoung Han, C Leslie Smith, Boyung Suh, Frank J Papa and Dan Hunt

9 Lectures
William B Jeffries III, Kathryn N Huggett and John L Szarek

10 Learning in Small Groups
Dario Torre and Steven J Durning

11 Clinical Teaching
Subha Ramani and John A Dent

12 Learning in Urban and Rural Communities
Roger Peter Strasser, Carol Pearl Herbert and William Brainerd Ventres

13 Learning in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships
David A Hirsh, Tara A Singh, Yamini Saravanan and Lucie Kaye Walters

14 Learning in a Simulated Environment
Roger Kneebone, Debra Nestel and Fernando Bello

15 Independent Learning and Distance Education
John Sandars and Kieran Walsh

SECTION 3 EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES

16 Outcome-based Education
Eric Holmboe and Ronald M Harden

17 Integrated Learning
Neil Osheroff

18 Interprofessional Education
Jill E Thistlethwaite and Peter H Vlasses

19 Problem-Based Learning, 155
Diana Dolmans, Woei Hung and Janneke M Frambach

20 Team-Based Learning
Dean Parmelee, Irina Overman and Abbas Hyderi

21 Digital Technologies in Medical Education
Rachel H Ellaway

SECTION 4 CURRICULUM THEMES, 179

22 Relevance of Foundational Sciences to the Curriculum
Wojciech Pawlina and Nirusha Lachman

23 Social and Behavioural Sciences in Medical School Curricula
Jeni Harden

24 Clinical Communication Skills
John R Skelton and Connie Wiskin

25 Ethics, Empathy and Attitudes
Teck Chuan Voo and Jacqueline Chin

26 Professionalism
Helen M O’Sullivan

27 Medical Research (in General) and Evidence-Based Medicine
Aliki Thomas and Benjamin Chin-Yee

28 Patient Safety and Quality of Care
Linda A Headrick, Douglas E Paull and Kevin B Weiss

29 Medical Humanities
Julie Y Chen and Harry Yi-Jui Wu

30 Integrative Medicine in the Training of Physicians
Aviad Haramati, Shelley R Adler, Ray Teets and Ben Kligler

31 Clinical Reasoning
Ralph Pinnock and Steven Durning

32 Medical Education in an Era of Ubiquitous Information
Johmarx Patton and Chuck P Friedman

SECTION 5 ASSESSMENT, 269

33 Concepts in Assessment Including Standard Setting
John Norcini and Danette W McKinley

34 Written Assessments
Lambert WT Schuwirth and Cees van der Vleuten

35 Performance and Workplace Assessment
Katharine Boursicot

36 Portfolios, Projects and Theses
Erik W Driessen, Sylvia Heeneman and Cees van der Vleuten

37 Feedback, Reflection and Coaching: Tools for Continuous Learning
Sharon K Krackov, Antoinette S Peters, Henry S Pohl and Joan M Sargeant

38 The Assessment of Attitudes and Professionalism
Val J Wass and Amanda Barnard

39 Programmatic Assessment
Cees van der Vleuten, Sylvia Heeneman and Lambert WT Schuwirth

SECTION 6 STAFF

40 The Roles of the Medical Teacher
Ronald M Harden and Pat Lilley

41 The Teacher as a Scholar
Shoaleh Bigdeli and Fakhrosadat Mirhoseini

42 Staff Development
Yvonne Steinert

43 Mentoring
Subha Ramani and Larry Gruppen

44 Burnout, Mistreatment and Stress
Marti Catheryn Balaam and Harriet Harris

45 The Patient as Educator
Gerard Flaherty and Robina Shah

SECTION 7 STUDENTS & TRAINEES

46 Selection of Students and Trainees
Kevin W Eva

47 Students and Trainees in Need of Additional Support
Rille Pihlak and Susannah Brockbank

48 Student Engagement in the Educational Programme
Marko Zdravkovic and Jim Determeijer

49 Professional Identity and Career Choice,
Roger Ellis and Elaine Hogard

SECTION 8 MEDICAL SCHOOL

50 Curriculum and Teacher Evaluation
Machelle Linsenmeyer

51 Medical Education Leadership
Judy McKimm and Kirsty Forrest

52 The Medical Teacher and Social Accountability
Roger Strasser, Charles Boelen, Björg Pálsdóttir,
Andre-Jacques Neusy and James Rourke

53 The Educational Environment
Jonas Nordquist and Ingrid Philibert

54 Medical Education Research
Jennifer A Cleland and Steven J Durning

55 Diversity, Equality and Individuality
Petra Verdonk, Sandra Steffens, Omar Tanay, Marie Mikuteit, Stephanie Okafor, Konstantin Jendretzky, Francissca Appiah, Kambiz Afshar and Maaike Muntinga (in collaboration with KritMeds and Comenius Project Equal Opportunities)

Review quotes

"This is an outstanding contribution to the medical education literature which should have significant global appeal." --James A. Hallock, Past President and Chief Executive, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, USA

"This marvellous book reminds us that, in the health professions, ‘we are all teaching and we are all learning’ ". --Brian D. Hodges Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 26, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

JD

John Dent

Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Reader in Postgraduate Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

RH

Ronald M. Harden

Professor Ronald M Harden is recognised as a leading international expert in medical education with experience as a teacher, curriculum developer, and teaching dean of a medical school. He is currently General Secretary of AMEE, an International Association for Medical Education.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor (Emeritus) Medical Education, University of Dundee, UK, Editor Medical Teacher, UK

DH

Dan Hunt

Affiliations and expertise
Co-Secretary, LCME and Senior Director, Accreditation Services, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC, USA