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A teaching methods course in Manchester for general practitioner teachers
Author(s) -
HARRIS C. M.,
LONG B. E. L.,
BYRNE P. S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1976.tb00440.x
Subject(s) - section (typography) , experiential learning , teaching method , medical education , psychology , teaching and learning center , mathematics education , course (navigation) , medicine , computer science , engineering , aerospace engineering , operating system
Summary A teaching‐methods course for general practitioner teachers is described. It lasts for 20 days, split into four 5‐day residential sections held at intervals of 6 months. The sections are respectively entitled person‐to‐person teaching, small group teaching, teaching behaviour, and a micro‐training laboratory. They recur in a cycle. The approach in each section is that of experiential learning—necessarily, since an aim of the course is to enable the members to apply the same approach in their own teaching. The methods of three of the sections are given in some detail. The person‐to‐person teaching section, concerned mainly with the learning of counselling skills, is dealt with fully by Long et al. (1976), and is here presented very briefly. The limited evaluation and assessment procedures, and their results, are offered together with certain general conclusions.