Clinical Learning Environment
Clinical Learning Environment
By Teresa Chan (@TChanMD)
Originally Published, March 19, 2020
Clinical learning environments can be challenging since they are locations where clinical care and education can clash. Here are a few recent resources that you might find interesting to review to help you think about your own teaching environments.
The Medical Education in Cases (MEdIC) series was a case-based set of faculty development modules. Here are five cases that will make you think differently about your clinical learning environments:
All cases are creative commons, so please feel free to share them print them, and use them to facilitate local discussions.
The ICE blog is an international, English-language blog with contributors from all over the world. Here is a selection of posts that we think will resonate with you as a clinician educator.
How to teach "diagnosis" and "patient management" by Rob Woods
Moving Away from the Battlefield: Stress and Learning in MedEd by Ben Kinnear
Teaching that Counts Infographics series by McMaster faculty member Alim Nagji & resident Krista Dowhos
Dr. Teresa Chan (@TChanMD) is an associate professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at McMaster University. She is a national award-winning clinician educator, and has recently taken the role of assistant dean for McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development (@MacPFD). She is also an avid scholar in health professions education and works with the MERIT group (@MERIT_McMaster), and conducts research and scholarship within this area.