Abc of learning and teaching in medicine (series: abc series) (paperback) (2^nd Ed.) ABC Series

The ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine is a fully revised, succinct resource for both novice and experienced medical teachers. It is an excellent introductory text for doctors and other health professionals starting out in their careers as well as offering teaching tips and new perspectives for busy practitioners wishing to keep abreast of developments in medical education.

The ABC emphasises the teacher's role as a facilitator of learning rather than a transmitter of knowledge. It is designed to be practical and accessible and will support good teachers in becoming even better at what they do. Each chapter seeks to explain how different aspects of learning and assessment work, (the theory) as well as providing descriptions of educational approaches that work, (the practice).

This fully updated new edition features core medical education topics such as course design, assessment, learning in groups, feedback, and the creation of learning materials. It also includesinvaluable new chapters that address many of the challenges of medical education such as dealing with students in difficulty, the teaching of professionalism in clinical settings, and how to support the development of teachers. Together, these chapters represent an authoritative guide written by a team of educational experts of international renown and is suitable for all health professional educators.

Contributors.

Preface.

1 Applying Educational Theory in Practice.

2 Course Design.

3 Collaborative Learning.

4 Evaluation.

5 Teaching Large Groups.

6 Teaching Small Groups.

7 Feedback in Medical Education: Skills for Improving Learner Performance.

8 Learning and Teaching in the Clinical Environment.

9 Written Assessment.

10 Skill-Based Assessment.

11 Work-Based Assessment.

12 Direct Observation Tools for Workplace-Based Assessment.

13 Learning Environment.

14 Creating Teaching Materials.

15 Learning and Teaching Professionalism.

16 Making It All Happen: Faculty Development for Busy Teachers.

17 Supporting Students in Difficulty.

Index.

This book is aimed primarily at clinician teachers (i.e. hospital physicians, surgeons, general practitioners, junior doctors, doctors in training, foundation year doctors, clinical teachers in nursing, speech and language, occupational therapy, etc). The primary market will clearly be teachers at all levels and career grades in medicine. However, the secondary markets of nursing and health sciences should be explored deliberately as they too lack an ABC style brief intervention type text for their clinical teachers.

Peter Cantillon, Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Education, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Diana Wood, Director of Medical Education, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK