cover image - A Practical Guide for Medical and Health Professions Teachers, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780443283383
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 520
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $80.99

A Practical Guide for Medical and Health Professions Teachers, 7th Edition

by John Dent, MMEd, MD, FHEA, FRCSEd, Ronald M. Harden, OBE MD FRCP(Glas) FRCSEd FRCPC and Yvonne Steinert, PhD

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cover image - A Practical Guide for Medical and Health Professions Teachers, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780443283383
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 520
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $80.99
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Bridging the gap between education theory and the delivery of excellent teaching, A Practical Guide for Medical and Health Professions Teachers, 7th Edition, provides accessible, highly readable, and practical information for those teaching or preparing to teach in the areas of basic science, clinical practice, and education in all the health professions. Highly regarded in these fields, this text offers valuable insights from global contributors who provide an international perspective as well as a multi-professional approach to topics relevant to all healthcare teachers. This fully revised edition provides timely updates on recent growth areas—from artificial intelligence, to the evolution of precision learning, to cultural awareness. It remains one of the foremost guides from top educationalists in the field.
    • Emphasizes the importance of developing educational skills in the delivery of enthusiastic and effective teaching
    • Offers comprehensive, succinct sections on curriculum development, learning situations and strategies, curriculum themes, assessment, student engagement, and more
    • Includes new content on artificial intelligence, public health medicine, social accountability, cultural awareness, student well-being and mindfulness, cost and sustainability in medical education, learning analytics, precision learning, peer-assisted learning, and professional identity, to highlight some
    • Features an expanded section, “Patients,” that stresses the importance of the patients as a partners in education and assessment
    • Helpful boxes highlight practical tips, quotes, and trends seen in today’s approach to education
    • Delivers the knowledge and expertise of more than 60 new authors and some 130 contributors from 27 countries, providing representation across the health professions
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows access to all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
  • SECTION 1 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
    1. The Medical School of the Future
    John A Dent, Ronald M Harden and Dan Hunt
    2. Curriculum Planning and Development
    Mark Edward Quirk and Ronald M Harden
    3. The Undergraduate Curriculum
    Joel Lanphear and Marie Matte
    4. Postgraduate Medical Education: A ‘Pipeline’ to Competence
    Linda Snell, Jason R Frank and Yousef Marwan
    5. Continuing Professional Development
    Samar Aboulsoud
    6. The Hidden Curriculum
    Elizabeth Gaufberg and Fred W Hafferty
    7. The International Dimension of Medical Education
    Trevor John Gibbs, Yingzi Huang and David Taylor

    SECTION 2 LEARNING SITUATIONS
    8. How Students Learn
    Heeyoung Han, C Leslie Smith, Boyung Suh, Frank J Papa and Dan Hunt
    9. Lectures
    William B Jeffries III, Kathryn N Huggett and John L Szarek
    10. Learning in Small Groups
    Dario Torre and Steven J Durning
    11. Clinical Teaching
    Subha Ramani and John A Dent
    12. Learning in Urban and Rural Communities
    Roger Peter Strasser, Carol Pearl Herbert and William Brainerd Ventres
    13. Learning in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships
    David A Hirsh, Tara A Singh, Yamini Saravanan and Lucie Kaye Walters
    14. Learning in a Simulated Environment
    Roger Kneebone, Debra Nestel and Fernando Bello
    15. Independent Learning and Distance Education
    John Sandars and Kieran Walsh

    SECTION 3 EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
    16. Outcome-based Education
    Eric Holmboe and Ronald M Harden
    17. Integrated Learning
    Neil Osheroff
    18. Interprofessional Education
    Jill E Thistlethwaite and Peter H Vlasses
    19. Problem-Based Learning
    Diana Dolmans, Woei Hung and Janneke M Frambach
    20. Team-Based Learning
    Dean Parmelee, Irina Overman and Abbas Hyderi
    21. Digital Technologies in Medical Education
    Rachel H Ellaway NEW - Artificial Intelligence

    SECTION 4 CURRICULUM THEMES
    22. Relevance of Foundational Sciences to the Curriculum
    Wojciech Pawlina and Nirusha Lachman
    23. Social and Behavioural Sciences in Medical School Curricula
    Jeni Harden
    24. Clinical Communication Skills
    John R Skelton and Connie Wiskin
    25. Ethics, Empathy and Attitudes
    Teck Chuan Voo and Jacqueline Chin
    26. Professionalism
    Helen M O’Sullivan
    27. Medical Research (in General) and Evidence-Based Medicine
    Aliki Thomas and Benjamin Chin-Yee
    28. Patient Safety and Quality of Care
    Linda A Headrick, Douglas E Paull and Kevin B Weiss
    29. Medical Humanities
    Julie Y Chen and Harry Yi-Jui Wu
    30. Integrative Medicine in the Training of Physicians
    Aviad Haramati, Shelley R Adler, Ray Teets and Ben Kligler
    31. Clinical Reasoning
    Ralph Pinnock and Steven Durning v
    32. Medical Education in an Era of Ubiquitous Information
    Johmarx Patton and Chuck P Friedman

    SECTION 5 ASSESSMENT
    33. Concepts in Assessment Including Standard Setting
    John Norcini and Danette W McKinley
    34. Written Assessments
    Lambert WT Schuwirth and Cees van der Vleuten
    35. Performance and Workplace Assessment
    Katharine Boursicot
    36. Portfolios, Projects and Theses
    Erik W Driessen, Sylvia Heeneman and Cees van der Vleuten
    37. Feedback, Reflection and Coaching: Tools for Continuous Learning
    Sharon K Krackov, Antoinette S Peters, Henry S Pohl and Joan M Sargeant
    38. The Assessment of Attitudes and Professionalism
    Val J Wass and Amanda Barnard
    39. Programmatic Assessment
    Cees van der Vleuten, Sylvia Heeneman and Lambert WT Schuwirth NEW Learning Analytics

    SECTION 6 STAFF
    40. The Roles of the Medical Teacher
    Ronald M Harden and Pat Lilley
    41. The Teacher as a Scholar
    Shoaleh Bigdeli and Fakhrosadat Mirhoseini
    42. Staff Development
    Yvonne Steinert
    43. Mentoring
    Subha Ramani and Larry Gruppen
    44. Burnout, Mistreatment and Stress
    Marti Catheryn Balaam and Harriet Harris

    SECTION 7 STUDENTS & TRAINEES
    46. Selection of Students and Trainees
    Kevin W Eva
    47. Students and Trainees in Need of Additional Support
    Rille Pihlak and Susannah Brockbank
    48. Student Engagement in the Educational Programme
    Marko Zdravkovic and Jim Determeijer
    49. Professional Identity and Career Choice
    Roger Ellis and Elaine Hogard NEW Peer-Assisted learning and Professional Identity

    SECTION 8 PATIENTS
    50. The Patient as Educator
    Gerard Flaherty and Robina Shah 51 Patient as Assessor
    52. Patient as Curriculum developer

    SECTION 9 MEDICAL SCHOOL
    50. Curriculum and Teacher Evaluation
    Machelle Linsenmeyer
    51. Medical Education Leadership
    Judy McKimm and Kirsty Forrest
    52. The Medical Teacher and Social Accountability
    Roger Strasser, Charles Boelen, Björg Pálsdóttir, Andre-Jacques Neusy and James Rourke
    53. The Educational Environment
    Jonas Nordquist and Ingrid Philibert
    54. Medical Education Research
    Jennifer A Cleland and Steven J Durning
    55. Diversity, Equality and Individuality
    Petra Verdonk, Sandra Steffens, Omar Tanay, Marie Mikuteit, Stephanie Okafor, Konstantin Jendretzky, Francissca Appiah, Kambiz Afshar and Maaike Muntinga (in collaboration with KritMeds and Comenius Project Equal Opportunities)
  • John Dent, MMEd, MD, FHEA, FRCSEd, International Liaison Officer, Association of Medical Education in Europe, Dundee, UK, Ronald M. Harden, OBE MD FRCP(Glas) FRCSEd FRCPC, Professor (Emeritus) Medical Education, University of Dundee, UK, Editor Medical Teacher, UK and Yvonne Steinert, PhD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, USA
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