OBJECTIVES Our study explored community preceptors' perceptions of their teaching role, to better understand effective ambulatory and community-based teaching. METHODS Bandura's social cognitive theory and Schön's notion of reflective practice guided conceptual development of an interview exploring preceptors' views of their role, teaching goals, teaching techniques, student assessment practi...

Hospitalist educators face a number of challenges in teaching clinical reasoning to residents and medical students. Helping to develop trainees' clinical acumen is an essential and highly nuanced process, yet complex patients, documentation requirements, and productivity goals compete with teaching time. Workplace-based assessment is particularly important for residents with the institution of ...

The process of developing and testing a teaching model in teaching statistical concepts at the introductory level is discussed. The model comprised three components, provision of supplementary notes, working in pairs and teaching concepts in worked examples, which were tested using a 2 randomised factorial block design with confounding. The development of the teaching model is supported by an i...

Computer-aided design (CAD) uses computer based facility to assist engineers and design professionals in their day to day activities. As a fundamental engineering skill, CAD software is normally taught to the first year undergraduate student. Unlike the other undergraduate engineering courses, the CAD teaching mainly relies on one to one teaching and learning environment. This requires extensiv...