Podcasts from The Clinical Teacher

Podcasts from The Clinical Teacher episodes:

• 12.12.2012

  Transforming teaching into scholarship by Teri Turner et al

  By examining what we do as clinicians and teachers, we were able to gather information about how we teach and how our students learn. As we reflected on this information within our small learning community, we began to realise the...

  
• 12.03.2012

  A patient safety course for preclinical medical students by Ilya Shekhter & Jill Sanko

  A course to introduce incoming third-year medical students to the subject of patient safety, to focus their attention on teamwork and communication, and to create an awareness of patient-safe practices that will positively impact their performance as clinicians.

  
• 12.03.2012

  Emergency telephone consultations: a new course for medical students by Mireille Schaufelberger

  A practical course on emergency telephone consultations (ECTs) was designed for the medical degree course at the University of Bern Medical School. During the module, each of the volunteer fifth-year medical students had to perform two simulated telephone consultations. Medical...

  
• 12.03.2012

  The experience of interdisciplinary peer-assisted learning (PAL) by Christopher Saunders

  Teaching sessions were developed and led by a collaborative group of fourth-year medical and nursing students, under the supervision of teaching staff. Each session had different stations aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary discussion between students. A pre- and post-event questionnaire was...

  
• 12.03.2012

  Man versus machine: the preferred modality by Jill Sanko & Ilya Shekhter

  140 medical students participated in a simulation-based activity focusing on teamwork, task delegation, role clarity and effective communication. Two similar clinical scenarios were presented, and either an HTS or an SP was used. Following each scenario, participants were surveyed on...

  
• 12.03.2012

  Developing the One-Minute Preceptor by Peter Gallagher & Helen Winter

  In the context of medical education, students are learning in a variety of physical locations. These various locations require different sets of teaching skills. This describes how as faculty educational developers we worked with clinicians to enhance their role as...

  
• 10.31.2011

  Men’s health: it is imperative to teach scrotal and rectal examination

  Men’s health has been a neglected area. Both their general health and their sexual health impact on morbidity and mortality. To improve this situation we need to educate men to attend their doctor and discuss their concerns. But, we also...

  
• 04.07.2011

  Teachers: Improving the content of feedback

  In the first podcast from The Clinical Teacher, Editor in Chief Steve Trumble talks to Professor Bob McKinley (Keele University School of Medicine, UK) about the article: 'Teachers: Improving the content of feedback', which he co-authored with Valerie Williams and...

  
• 04.04.2011

  Teaching clinical examination using peer-assisted learning amongst graduate-entry students

  In this podcast, Steve Trumble, Editor in Chief of The Clinical Teacher looks at the March issue of the journal, focusing on an article by Jon M Dickson, Richard Harrington and Michael J. Carter entitled: ‘Teaching clinical examination using peer-assisted...

  
• 03.29.2011

  Travelling educational workshops for clinical teachers

  rs Peter Gallagher and Sue Pullon from the University of Otago in New Zealand discuss the challenges of providing educational development to clinical teachers across widely separated sites. Building relationships between the clinicians and the medical school by simply...