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COSM13: Education Expert Urges Medical Teachers to Rethink Their Approach

by Samara E. Kuehne • May 1, 2013

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If we want to learn how to teach in a more powerful way, the first thing we have to do is think differently about how we prepare to teach, said Dr. Fink, adding that educators need to spend time learning about some ideas on teaching.

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There are three ways of learning, he said: through our own learning experience, by sharing with colleagues and learning from the literature on college teaching. In the 1990s, Dr. Fink said, books started coming out with some very powerful ideas on college teaching, including ideas on how learning occurs, designing the learning experience itself, more powerful learning activities, assessment, teaching strategies and managing special situations, such as engaging large classes.

Incorporating any of these ideas into practice would make a huge difference in the quality of someone’s teaching, he said. The problem is that these ideas aren’t yet common in the practice of teaching in the medical profession, even though they’ve been around for 20 years, he added.

“If we work in a medical school, we have to remember we are also professional medical educators,” he said. “And if we are professional, we take full responsibility for doing the very best job we possibly can, and part of doing that means we have to take our own professional development as teachers—not just as subject matter specialists, but as teachers—very, very seriously.”

To achieve this, he said, educators need to be familiar with the latest literature on teaching techniques, and they need to put those ideas into practice. He urged audience members to embrace the idea of continuous improvement of their teaching skills, just as they spend every year improving their medical knowledge.

“If we’re going to teach,” he said, “we need to learn the things we need to learn that will allow us, will enable us, to teach as effectively as we possibly can.” If educators do that, he added, the way they teach is going to change.

“If we teach in this way, what our students learn from us is going to change. While they’re in medical school, they’re going to be more engaged, they’re going to have a more significant learning experience, and when that happens, once they graduate, they’re going to be new kinds of practitioners,” he said. “They’ll be able to do their clinical work more effectively, they’re going to be able to work with their patients more effectively [and] more collaboratively, they’re going to be able to be public advocates for recruiting health care services and, finally, they’re going to also be able to work on the goal of professional wealth.”

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Filed Under: Features Tagged With: annual meeting, COSM13, educationIssue: May 2013

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