Teaching in Your Office: A Guide to Instructing Medical Students and Residents
The book, Teaching in Your Office, is a comprehensive resource for physicians interested in improving their techniques in office-based teaching while maintaining the efficiency of their practice. Users of the book, and others involved in office-based teaching, will find the following tables useful. All are in Palm doc format.
- Feedback Description
This summary provides the essential elements of feedback to learners and is applicable to both the inpatient and ambulatory settings. The various qualities of feedback are provided as well as examples. [Download - 1.41k]. - Microskills Model
This five-step approach to teaching combines expert consultation with the technique of questioning to assess learner and patient needs quickly and effectively. This technique is used immediately following a patient presentation. [Download - 1.28k]. - Patient Presentation
This is an organizational framework for an ambulatory patient presentation for medical students or residents. It is unique from other presentation formats in that it focuses the learner to identify their learning needs at the beginning of the presentation, thus increasing the efficiency of the interaction between learner and supervising physician. [Download - 1.11k]. - RIME Evaluation
RIME is a mnemonic for progressively complex and sophisticated clinical skills. As an evaluation framework RIME uses a developmental approach to describe attainment of major competencies. [Download - 1.05k].
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