Teaching clinical skills at workplaces

Beyond measure: teaching clinical skills.

I recently visited a retired physician who practiced in Roma, Texas, population 10000. His family has lived and ranched in Roma for 6 generations, well before the border was moved and Roma became part of the United States. As the town's first and only physician for most of his 4-plus decades in practice, Dr Mario Ramirez did it all: deliveries, house calls, minor surgery, and seeing 60 people a...

Teaching clinical skills with patient resources.

Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning Skills.

Clinical reasoning is a core competency expected to be acquired by all clinicians. It is the ability to integrate and apply different types of knowledge, weigh evidence critically and reflect upon the process used to arrive at a diagnosis. Problems with clinical reasoning often occur because of inadequate knowledge, flaws in data gathering and improper approach to information processing. Some o...

Teaching clinical skills in developing countries: are clinical skills centres the answer?

CONTEXT There is growing international interest in teaching clinical skills in a variety of contexts, one of which is Clinical Skills Centres. The drivers for change making Skills Centres an important adjunct to ward and ambulatory teaching come both from within and outside medical education. Educationally, self-directed learning is becoming the accepted norm, encouraging students to seek and m...

Look at the Clinical Skills Center and its applications

Clinical skills centers are one of the potentials in medical universities. Despite the huge spending in our country, these centers are used incompletely and undesirable. These review articles look at these centers, its application in some Iranian universities and foreign universities, and present some suggestions for optimal use of these centers in nationwide universities