Medical teacher
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We reviewed the medical-education literature in order to explore the significance and importance of teaching medical students about education principles and teaching skills. ⋯ Medical students' informal teaching activities accompany, facilitate, and complement many important aspects of their medical education. Formally developing medical students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes in education may further stimulate these aspects.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Student teachers can be as good as associate professors in teaching clinical skills.
The aim of this study is to compare student teachers and clinical associate professors regarding the quality of procedural skills teaching in terms of participants' technical skills, knowledge and satisfaction with the teaching. ⋯ Trained student teachers can be as good as associate professors in teaching clinical skills.
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Although dying and death are common in practice, medical and social work students receive limited teaching on this topic. In addition, they have minimal experience of each others' role in the process, yet respecting the roles of other professionals in this delicate area is paramount to the delivery of high standards of care. In an attempt to address this, a pilot interprofessional 3 hour dying and death workshop was developed for senior social work and medical students using a constructivist approach to explore their own personal, uniprofessional and interprofessional roles in the dying and death process. ⋯ This undergraduate interprofessional pilot dying and death workshop was well received and enabled learning on three levels--personal, professional and interprofessional. It promoted a greater understanding of the role of each student's own profession and appreciation of the role of other professionals in the dying and death process.
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This study evaluates whether peer-assisted learning (PAL) can be used to improve students' clinical examination skills. ⋯ This study shows that PAL is a useful adjunct to MSS training, and could be incorporated into medical curricula to enhance clinical skills.