Teaching constitutes part of a psychiatrist's work. The essential determinants of best practice in psychiatric education as well as proven teaching methods are still lacking. The authors have presented the application of the Delphi technique to under- and postgraduate teaching programmes in diverse fields of medical knowledge. The Delphi method is based on systematic and anonymous refinement of...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this project was to develop a reproducible system that measures quantity and quality of teaching in unduplicated hours, such that comparisons of teaching activities could be drawn within and across departments. Such a system could be used for allocating teaching monies and for assessing teaching as part of the promotion and tenure process. METHODS Various teaching activi...

The present study was conducted with a sample of junior medical students at Jefferson Medical College to investigate the factors that influence students' overall satisfaction with the otolaryngology clerkship. The most important factor related to their overall satisfaction in the clerkship was their experience with residents, followed by experience with attending physicians, quality of rounds, ...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has established the requirement for residency programs to assess trainees' competencies in 6 core domains (patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice). As attending rounds serve as a primary means for educating trainees at academic medical ...

T he terminal objective of surgical training is to produce competent surgeons capable of meeting the health care needs of our society. Recently , several accrediting medical bodies in North America proposed a framework of essential competencies required of all specialist physicians. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's CanMEDS 2000 Project endorsed the following 7 core compe...

In this paper we describe preliminary results on the impact of providing different types of robot feedback on the effectiveness of teaching by demonstration, as well as on user satisfaction. Participants had to teach a humanoid robot various ways of holding a can, via tactile feedback, by providing several rounds of demonstration. Our goal was to determine the best way of providing feedback in ...

BACKGROUND Although current literature supports the benefits of family-centered rounds on medical education, few studies have explored students' perceptions of family-centered rounds. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to provide a better and broader understanding of the effect of family-centered rounds on medical student education. METHODS During the inpatient portion of the third-year pedi...