title: Directing medical student clinical case presentations.
abstract: This paper reports from an ethnographic study examining different instructional approaches among clinical instructors in a department of internal medicine. The focus of the paper is on different questioning styles adopted by the instructors during student case presentations and the impact of these questioning styles on medical students. A means of classifying questions is presented and suggestions for further research are offered.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*