Using the Socratic method in office-based teaching.

(Fam Med 2004;36(3):162-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Douglas Lewis, MD, discusses how the Socratic method can be used in office-based teaching to help the learner gain new knowledge. Dr Lewis is the associate director of the Via Christi Family Practice Residency in Wichita, Kan. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to [email protected]. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098-3915. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713798-7789. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text.