Clinical Education & Teaching

Links to useful tools and articles on clinical teaching, bedside teaching, microskills and teachable moments.

• • Clinical Education resources from UMDNJ

  • Strategies in bedside teaching

  • Microskill strategies for clinical precepting

  • On Bedside Teaching; Michael A. LaCombe, MD Annals IM 1997

  • Collaborative Approach to Clinical Teaching

  • The Residents’ Teaching Skills Web site: An incredible source of information and links to other Resident as Teacher programs around the country. Also includes an extensive bibliography under the resources section and a teaching style assessment www.residentteachers.com

• Five Strategies to Improve Teaching and Learning in the Intensive Care Unit

• Useful Websites for Clinical Preceptors

• Effective presentations-tips for success

Microskills for bedside clinical education.

Try out these "microskills" for enhancing teachable moments in your role as educator:

1. Get a commitment.

What do you think is going on?

2. Probe for supporting evidence.

Why do you think this?

3. Teach general rules.

4. Reinforce what was right.

Tell them what they did right and the effect that it had.

5. Correct mistakes.

Tell them what they did right.

Tell them what they did not do right.

Tell them how to improve for the next time.

Some examples of how to use these microskills are described: Example 1. Example 2.