Teaching Resident Physicians to Be Educators
Teaching Excellence in Residency: Skills for Clinical Educators Curriculum
Teaching Excellence in Residency: Skills for Clinical Educators Program
This program is designed to support other programs that wish to implement teaching training for residents.
The underlying concept of this initiative is that residents become better physicians by learning through service: service to their multicultural patient populations through better communication skills, and service to their learners through better teaching skills. Most important, through self-directed learning, participating residents will serve their own educational needs.
About the Teaching Excellence in Residency: Skills for Clinical Educators Program
More and more residency programs across the United States - and in other countries – are offering teaching skills training to their residents.
All of the curricular materials from the Resident-As-Teachers project are now available on this web site, free of charge. By the end of the curriculum, residents will be able to:
- Explain the concept of the "teachable moment."
- Describe the role of the resident physician as team leader and manager.
- Orient a medical student or intern to a new rotation.
- List and use the five microskills of clinical teaching with learners of various skill levels.
- Give skillful and constructive feedback to learners.
- Run inpatient work rounds, incorporating teaching appropriate to each level of learner.
- Give a medical student helpful, constructive feedback about charting.
- Teach a learner how to perform a procedure.
- Give an interactive mini-lecture for learners at various levels of training.
- Provide helpful feedback for colleagues about their teaching skills.