Teaching Strategies: Clinical and Lab Teaching
The articles and links in this section provide information on clinical and lab teaching, including principles of clinical teaching and guidelines for evaluating clinical performance and competence. Links alsocover the concepts, methods and issues underlying assessment in medical, dental, nursing and allied health education.
CRLT Occasional Paper #1: Clinical Teaching (Schweak, 1987)
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no1.pdf
This paper describes some features of clinical teaching as a form of interpersonal communication between two people, a teacher and a learner, and then offers an example of the specific application to a common format of medical teaching: bedside teaching.
Principles of Clinical Teaching (Slippery Rock University)
http://www.sru.edu/pages/3547.asp
This section explores teaching strategies for effective precepting, including teaching as reflection-in-action, strategies for working with problem learners, and teaching interdisciplinary collaboration.
Clinical Education:
Web Resources on Clinical Teaching and Learning (University of Medicine & Dentistry
of New Jersey)
http://cte.umdnj.edu/clinical_education/index.cfm
Well-organized site containing links to many resources on clinical teaching and learning, including general concepts, tips and tutorials, evidence-based clinical teaching, and clinical education associations and societies.
Evaluating
Clinical Performance (University of Medicine & Dentistry of
New Jersey)
http://cte.umdnj.edu/student_evaluation/evaluation_clinical.cfm
Access dozens of links on clinical evaluation organized into five major categories: Overviews of Clinical Evaluation; Evaluating Clinical Performance and Competence; Representative Clinical Assessment Tools and Methods; Structured Medline Searches on Clinical Competency Evaluation; and Structured Medline Searches on the Objective Structure Clinical Exam (OSCE).
Strategies in Clinical Teaching (University of Kansas)
http://wichita.kumc.edu/strategies
A community-based faculty development Web site provided by the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Department of Internal Medicine. This site is funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, designed to help faculty be more effective teachers.
Clinical Supervision Checklists (University of Colorado Denver)
http://www.uchsc.edu/CIS/ClinSupChkList.html
Self-checklists adapted from Westberg & Jason’s Collaborative Clinical Education: The Foundation of Effective Health Care, New York: Springer Publishing, 1993. These resources are helpful for reflection on your teaching and assessing your instruction materials.