A consultative dermatology service plays an important role in patient care and education in the hospital setting. Optimizing education in balance with high-quality dermatology consultative services is both a challenge and an opportunity for dermatology consultation teams. There is an emergence of new information about how dermatology can best be taught in the hospital, much of which relies on p...

OBJECTIVE To improve clinical teaching with emphasis on improving provision of feedback through a faculty development series modeled on clinical rounds. METHOD Seven 1-hour conferences were held for the pediatric faculty during the academic year 1994-1995. Clinical rounds were emulated, with a simulated learner functioning as the patient with a chief complaint of some instructional problem. T...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This teaching rounds a visual aid to teach...

BACKGROUND In an integrated method of education, medical students are introduced to radiology in their preclinical years. However, no study has been conducted in Pakistan to demonstrate an academic framework of medical radiology education at an undergraduate level. Therefore, we aimed to document and compare the current level of teaching duties, teaching methodologies, and teaching rewards amon...

Great teaching value can come from showcasing an unusual phenomenon that serves as an aid to explain how best to approach mundane, common problems. In this installment of teaching rounds, Wakabayashi et al use an unusual activation sequence observed along the mitral annular atrial myocardium that was observed after ablation of the mitral isthmus to teach us about the pitfalls created by the com...

Awareness of the recent escalation of sexual abuse in the RSA has exposed inconsistencies in the intervention and treatment process and has implications for routine health care. Fifth-year medical students at the University of the Witwatersrand are involved with children in institutions as part of their community paediatric course. During 1985, 9 of the 50 students had to deal with children who...

Given the unique interventional emphasis in our specialty, Teaching Rounds in Cardiac Electrophysiology has frequently centered on the pearls and pitfalls associated with electrogram analysis and complications of lead implant extraction or ablation and in mapping complex arrhythmia circuits. In this issue of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Fabrizio et al, in a refreshing departur...