Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher : An Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Medicine (Paperback, 3 ed)

Section 1 - Challenges you face as a teacher (Teaching responsibilities)

1. What is expected of you as a teacher at a time of change

Section 2 - Specifying what students should learn (Outcome-based education)

2. What is outcome or competency based education
3. Specifying the learning outcomes and competencies
4. Describing and communicating the learning outcomes and competencies
5. Twelve steps in establishing an outcome or competency based approach
6. Entrustable Professional Activities

Section 3 - Planning the curriculum (The Curriculum)

7. The authentic curriculum
8. Ten questions to ask when planning a curriculum
9. Sequencing curriculum content and the spiral curriculum
10. A student-centred approach and student engagement
11. Building learning around clinical problems and presentations
12. Using an integrated approach
13. Interprofessional education (IPE)
14. Clinical teaching in the curriculum
15. Information overload, the core curriculum and electives
16. The importance of the education environment
17. Mapping the curriculum

Section 4 - Helping the student to learn (The teacher’s toolkit)

18. Selecting the teaching method
19. Using sound educational principles
20. Demonstrating passion for teaching
21. Teaching large groups
22. Learning in small groups
23. Facilitating Independent learning
24. Undertaking clinical teaching
25. Making use of simulation
26. Technology-enhanced learning
27. Using peer and collaborative learning

Section 5 - Checking that the student has learned (Assessment)

28. Your institution’s assessment PROFILE
29. Six questions to ask about assessment
30. Written assessment
31. Clinical and performance-based assessment
32. Portfolio assessment
33. Self-assessment
34. Assessment for admission to medicine and postgraduate training

Section 6 - Planning for the future

35. Evaluating the curriculum
36. Knowing what works and doesn’t work
37. Bringing about change
38. The future of medical education