Teaching clinical skills

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...

A simple five-step method for teaching clinical skills.

(Fam Med 2001;33(8):577-8.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, John H. George, PhD, of Penn State College of Medicine, and Frank X. Doto, MS, of County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ, describe a method to improve psychomotor procedure training for our learners. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all pre...