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MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students
Objectives: According to the CanMEDS’ Scholar competency, physicians are expected to facilitate the learning of colleagues, patients and other health professionals. However, most medical students are not provided with formal opportunities to gain teaching experience with objective feedback. Methods:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28178910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2016.1264149 |
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author | Bandeali, Suhair Chiang, Albert Ramnanan, Christopher J. |
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description | Objectives: According to the CanMEDS’ Scholar competency, physicians are expected to facilitate the learning of colleagues, patients and other health professionals. However, most medical students are not provided with formal opportunities to gain teaching experience with objective feedback. Methods: To address this, the University’s Medical Education Interest Group (MEIG) created a pilot teaching program in January 2015 entitled ‘MedTalks’. Four 3-hour sessions were held at the University Faculty of Medicine, where first and second year medical students taught clinically oriented topics to undergraduate university students. Each extracurricular session included three 30-minute content lectures, and a 90-minute small group session on physical examination skills. Each medical student-teacher received formal feedback from undergraduate students and from faculty educators regarding teaching style, communication abilities, and professionalism. In addition, medical student-teachers self-evaluated their own teaching experience. Results: Over 50 medical students from the University participated as medical student-teachers. Based on quantitative and qualitative evaluation surveys, 100% of medical students agreed that MedTalks was a useful way to develop teaching skills and 92% gained a greater confidence in individual teaching capabilities, based largely on the opportunity to gain experience (with feedback) in teaching roles. Conclusions: A program designed to give medical students multi-source teaching experience (lecture- and small group-based) and feedback on their teaching (from learners and Faculty observers, in addition to their own self-reflection) can improve medical student confidence and enthusiasm towards teaching. Future studies will clarify if medical student self-perceived enhancements in teaching ability can be corroborated by independent (Faculty, learner) observations of future teaching activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-53283532017-03-06 MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students Bandeali, Suhair Chiang, Albert Ramnanan, Christopher J. Med Educ Online Trend Article Objectives: According to the CanMEDS’ Scholar competency, physicians are expected to facilitate the learning of colleagues, patients and other health professionals. However, most medical students are not provided with formal opportunities to gain teaching experience with objective feedback. Methods: To address this, the University’s Medical Education Interest Group (MEIG) created a pilot teaching program in January 2015 entitled ‘MedTalks’. Four 3-hour sessions were held at the University Faculty of Medicine, where first and second year medical students taught clinically oriented topics to undergraduate university students. Each extracurricular session included three 30-minute content lectures, and a 90-minute small group session on physical examination skills. Each medical student-teacher received formal feedback from undergraduate students and from faculty educators regarding teaching style, communication abilities, and professionalism. In addition, medical student-teachers self-evaluated their own teaching experience. Results: Over 50 medical students from the University participated as medical student-teachers. Based on quantitative and qualitative evaluation surveys, 100% of medical students agreed that MedTalks was a useful way to develop teaching skills and 92% gained a greater confidence in individual teaching capabilities, based largely on the opportunity to gain experience (with feedback) in teaching roles. Conclusions: A program designed to give medical students multi-source teaching experience (lecture- and small group-based) and feedback on their teaching (from learners and Faculty observers, in addition to their own self-reflection) can improve medical student confidence and enthusiasm towards teaching. Future studies will clarify if medical student self-perceived enhancements in teaching ability can be corroborated by independent (Faculty, learner) observations of future teaching activity. Taylor & Francis 2016-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5328353/ /pubmed/28178910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2016.1264149 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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title | MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
title_full | MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
title_fullStr | MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
title_full_unstemmed | MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
title_short | MedTalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
title_sort | medtalks: developing teaching abilities and experience in undergraduate medical students |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28178910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2016.1264149 |
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