A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

Although most medical school faculty members are required to teach, the standard medical school curriculum doesn't tell them how to do it well. This book does.

An award-winning clinician-teacher, Helen M. Shields has spent her career training future doctors, researchers, and medical school instructors. Here she shares classroom-tested methods for developing, implementing, and evaluating effective curricula for medical students. Shields's five steps emphasize

• extensive behind-the-scenes preparation, with a focus on visualizing both one's own performance and the desired student feedback
• clear and logical presentations that match the material being taught
• controlled exploration of topics through prepared questions and management of group dynamics
• reinforcement of important concepts throughout the teaching session
• a five-minute summary of take-home points


Shields's easy-to-follow guide discusses what teachers should do—and what they should not do. She provides pertinent beginning-of-chapter questions, sample teaching materials, tips for last-minute assignments, and other pearls of wisdom. Shields also describes the methods of dynamic and effective instructors, offers a step-by-step approach to preparation and presentation, and relates proven ways to address a variety of expected and unexpected situations.

Innovative and practical, A Medical Teacher’s Manual for Success is an essential resource for medical school faculty members who want to teach well.

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A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

Although most medical school faculty members are required to teach, the standard medical school curriculum doesn't tell them how to do it well. This book does.

An award-winning clinician-teacher, Helen M. Shields has spent her career training future doctors, researchers, and medical school instructors. Here she shares classroom-tested methods for developing, implementing, and evaluating effective curricula for medical students. Shields's five steps emphasize

• extensive behind-the-scenes preparation, with a focus on visualizing both one's own performance and the desired student feedback
• clear and logical presentations that match the material being taught
• controlled exploration of topics through prepared questions and management of group dynamics
• reinforcement of important concepts throughout the teaching session
• a five-minute summary of take-home points


Shields's easy-to-follow guide discusses what teachers should do—and what they should not do. She provides pertinent beginning-of-chapter questions, sample teaching materials, tips for last-minute assignments, and other pearls of wisdom. Shields also describes the methods of dynamic and effective instructors, offers a step-by-step approach to preparation and presentation, and relates proven ways to address a variety of expected and unexpected situations.

Innovative and practical, A Medical Teacher’s Manual for Success is an essential resource for medical school faculty members who want to teach well.

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A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

by Helen M. Shields MD FACP AGAF
A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

A Medical Teacher's Manual for Success: Five Simple Steps

by Helen M. Shields MD FACP AGAF

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Overview

Although most medical school faculty members are required to teach, the standard medical school curriculum doesn't tell them how to do it well. This book does.

An award-winning clinician-teacher, Helen M. Shields has spent her career training future doctors, researchers, and medical school instructors. Here she shares classroom-tested methods for developing, implementing, and evaluating effective curricula for medical students. Shields's five steps emphasize

• extensive behind-the-scenes preparation, with a focus on visualizing both one's own performance and the desired student feedback
• clear and logical presentations that match the material being taught
• controlled exploration of topics through prepared questions and management of group dynamics
• reinforcement of important concepts throughout the teaching session
• a five-minute summary of take-home points


Shields's easy-to-follow guide discusses what teachers should do—and what they should not do. She provides pertinent beginning-of-chapter questions, sample teaching materials, tips for last-minute assignments, and other pearls of wisdom. Shields also describes the methods of dynamic and effective instructors, offers a step-by-step approach to preparation and presentation, and relates proven ways to address a variety of expected and unexpected situations.

Innovative and practical, A Medical Teacher’s Manual for Success is an essential resource for medical school faculty members who want to teach well.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801899379
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 01/03/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Helen M. Shields, M.D., FACP, AGAF, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received the Best Preclinical Instructor Award from the Harvard Medical School's 2004 and 2007 graduating classes and the Harvard Medical School Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1999 and 2008.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Part I Career Development

1 Why and How to Become a Successful Teacher 3

2 Personal Qualities of Successful Teachers 12

3 How to Succeed as a Medical Educator 20

Part II Teaching Skills

4 A Framework for Successful Teaching 33

5 Understanding Adult Learning Theory, Bloom's Taxonomy of Objectives, Critical Thinking, and Curriculum Development 52

6 Assessing the Learner, Providing Feedback, Writing Evaluations and Recommendations 63

7 Preclinical Teaching 94

8 Clinical Teaching 132

9 Postgraduate Teaching 157

10 Additional Teaching Methods 182

11 Leading Others to Teach Well 198

12 Recognition, Rewards, Awards, and Prizes 212

13 What to Do When Time Does Not Permit Optimal Preparation for a Teaching Assignment 220

14 Bringing an Educational Research Project to Completion 226

15 Promotion 243

References 255

Index 269

What People are Saying About This

Dr. Patricia Thomas

A much-needed resource for medical school educator faculty. This book will be useful for many development programs now being implemented for both residents and faculty.

Dr. Patricia Thomas, coeditor of Curriculum Development for Medical Education

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