title: Teaching medical students in their last leg of the undergraduate journey.
abstract: This short biographical piece provides a brief description of the experience of a medical teacher at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. It traces his initial response to being chosen as a teacher and shows movement from self-doubt to assertive thinking about the role of the teacher. The development of the teacher, though buttressed by a formal training intervention, is couched within a sensitive understanding of the whole student.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. tomlin.paul@uwimona.edu.jm
authors.forename: Tomlin J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Paul
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*