Teaching information skills to large groups with limited time and resources

Teaching Advanced Interviewing Skills to Residents: A Curriculum for Institutions with Limited Resources.

Residency program directors currently face new requirements from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), including the mandate to demonstrate their residents' proficiency in communication skills. Such skills can be improved through an educational intervention, but few residencies specifically offer formal instruction in communication. Furthermore, the only formal instr...

Teaching clinical skills with patient resources.

Structured clinical observations: a method to teach clinical skills with limited time and financial resources.

OBJECTIVE To develop and implement a methodology to teach clinical skills to medical students in busy clinical settings. METHODS The Structured Clinical Observation (SCO) program with guidelines and observation sheets for history-taking, physical examination, and information-giving skills was created. Faculty development preceded SCO implementation for pediatric clerkship students at Jefferso...

Teaching Information literacy Skills for Training Programs to Higher Education with Emphasis on urban studies

This study aims to determine the need for teaching information literacy skills in the curriculum of higher education. From MA and doctoral students in urban studies, 380 samples were selected using stratified random sampling. In the process of gathering data translated Information Literacy Competency Standard Questionnaire for Higher Education by the American Library Association in 2000 appro...

Teaching Large Groups

K.N. Huggett and W.B. Jeffries (eds.), An Introduction to Medical Teaching, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9066-6_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract The 1 h lecture is a standard delivery mechanism for medical knowledge. In its traditional format, it has been shown to have serious limitations for domains of learning outside of knowledge transfer and students have diffi culty m...