Are medical schools hesitant to teach undergraduate students teaching skills? A medical student's critical view.
Junior medical staff provides a large proportion of undergraduate student education. However, despite increasing numbers of resident-as-teacher training programs, junior doctors may still not be sufficiently prepared to teach medical students. Hence, medical schools should consider implementing formal teaching skills training into undergraduate curricula.
Clinical Skills Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; lukas.mileder@medunigraz.at.
Lukas Peter
LP
Mileder
D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013663:Teaching
didactics; medical education; resident-as-teacher training programs; student-as-teacher training; teaching skills