Dorothy Heathcote (1926-2011) is best known today for the “Mantle of Expert” system teaching, a drama method in which young people are asked to think themselves as an “expert” team some kind, who receive fictional commission from imaginary client. This “commission” forms basis programme teaching across curriculum. In “Commission Model,” she created early 2000s, there real commission, client com...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous reports have defined the time that community preceptors spend teaching students, but much remains to be learned about the process and content of office-based teaching. Our objective was to understand better the teaching process and content by documenting how often preceptors used the microskills described in the Five-step "Microskills" Model of Clinical Teachi...

The present paper introduces a new model for teaching randomized learners. Our new model, though based on the classical teaching dimension model, allows to study the influence of various parameters such as the learner’s memory size, its ability to provide or to not provide feedback, and the influence of the order in which examples are presented. Furthermore, within the new model it is possible ...