Resident TLC Toolkit: Teaching Strategies: Settings and Methods

This Toolkit is designed to provide residents with resources for developing effective teaching skills.

Small Group Learning

Articles
Teaching small groups.
Jaques D.
BMJ. 2003 mar 1:326(7387):492-4.

Problem based learning.
Wood DF.
BMJ. 2003 Feb 8;326(7384):328-30.

The effects of problem-based learning during medical school on physician competency: a systematic review.
Koh GC, Khoo HE, Wong ML, Koh D.
CMAJ. 2008 Jan 1;178(1):34-41.

Redesign of a large lecture course into a small-group learning course.
Ferreri SP, O'Connor SK.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2013 Feb 12;77(1):13.

Learning with peers: From small group cooperation to collaborative communities.
Blumenfeld PC, Marx RW, Soloway E, Krajcik J.
Educ Res 1996 Nov;25(8):37-40.

Websites
How to Make Small-Group Learning Work: A Teaching For Success Win-Win Quick Study

Video
Team-Based Learning

Other Teaching Techniques / Methods of Instruction

Websites
Teaching Strategies: A variety of teaching strategies are explored, including experiential and field-based instruction, community service, case-based, problem-based, flipped teaching, and research-based learning.

Faculty Development Module on Curriculum Design

Clickers

Teaching and Learning in Active Learning Classrooms

Eberly Center: Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation

Videos
Using Clickers in the Classroom

Classroom Assessment Technique: Concept Maps

Large Group Learning

Articles
Teaching large groups.
Peter Cantillon
BMJ 2003 Feb 22;326(7386):437

Innovation in Large Lectures: Teaching for Active Learning.
Ebert-May D, Brewer C, Allred S.
Bioscience. 1997 Oct;47(9):601-7.

Websites
Large Lecture Classes

Lecture Planning and Lecturing

Teaching to Large Classes: Information for instructors about how to create a positive and effective learning environment in a large class, including tips on remembering students' names and getting students' involved.

Video
Presentation tips for teachers (Never give a boring lecture again!)

 

Clinical Teaching

Articles
ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: one to one teaching and feedback.
Gordon J.
BMJ. 2003 Mar 8;326(7388):543-5.

Learning and teaching in the clinical environment.
Spencer J.
BMJ. 2003 Mar 15;326(7389):591-4.

Teaching strategies used by internal medicine residents on the wards.
Smith DT, Kohlwes RJ.
Med Teach. 2011;33(12):e697-703. 

Clinical teacher training—maximising the ‘ad hoc’ teaching encounter.
Molodysky E.
Aust Fam Physician. 2007 Dec;36(120:1044-6.

Clinical teaching.
Schwenk TL.
[Ann Arbor, MI]: University of Michigan; 1987. CRLT Occasional Paper Series, #1.

Teaching in the outpatient clinic: practical tips.
McGee SR, Irby DM.
J Gen Intern Med. 1997 Apr;12 Suppl 2:S34-40.

Teaching effectively but efficiently “on the fly.”
Emott M.
SGIM Forum. 2009 Sep;32(9):4,5,12.

Inconvenient truths about effective clinical teaching.
Reilly BM,
Lancet 2007 Aug 25;370(9588):705-11.

Giving feedback in clinical settings.
Cantillon P, Sargeant J.
BMJ. 2008 Nov 10;337:a196

 Websites

Five Microskills for Clinical Teaching