Teaching Ambulatory Medicine

Many medical care decisions are made in outpatient settings, yet physician training continues to be conducted in inpatient settings. Emphasizing the benefits of ambulatory teaching for both medical students and office-based physicians, this work offers advice on starting and carrying out medical education in outpatient settings. It describes basic elements of learning theory and the student-teacher relationship, and provides tips on preparing students to interact with patients. Since most physicians have no formal training as teachers, methods for evaluating the teacher are included. Durso teaches medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Outlining approaches for teaching residents and medical students in ambulatory care, this book discusses essential teaching skills, tells how to deal with difficult trainees, and shows how to set up a private practice as a setting for teaching. Rubenstein is affiliated with the Family Medicine Program, Royal College of General Practitioners of Australia. Talbot teaches in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Health Administration at the University of Toronto. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A practical, hands-on resource for physicians in all specialties, Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care is a guide on training medical students and residents in settings such as private practices and hospital clinics. Concise, engaging, and easy to follow, it is an ideal handbook for the busy practitioner looking to upgrade his or her teaching abilities. The authors cover basic education theory, individual teaching skills, strategies for evaluating trainees, and tips on working with challenging learners. Readers can follow along with the storyline of a fictional Dr. Smith, through whom the book provides practical examples that complement each theory, skill, and strategy presented. This new edition has been updated with key medical education theories that are now core to current approaches, expanded details on one-to-one teaching, and information on structured formats to use when reviewing patient encounters with learners. The authors also examine the impact of digital technology on medical education in office-based settings and provide tips on working with the new generation of learners who enjoy – and expect – instant access to information of all kinds.

This newly revised edition of Teaching in Your Office is an excellent resource for physicians interested in improving their techniques in office-based teaching while maintaining the efficiency of their practice. Updated and redesigned, this new edition offers teaching skills in a format succinct and focused enough to allow busy clinicians to identify chapters that address their specific needs. Additionally, each major topic is summarized in an Appendix that includes additional tips, tools, and resources for preceptors. Office-based teaching should be a beneficial and rewarding experience for both teacher and student. However, ambulatory medical education takes place in a fast-paced, often chaotic environment in which there is little time for instruction, observation, and feedback. Consequently, preceptors mistakenly consider the opportunity for their own self-improvement to be limited.

TOPIC (Task-Oriented Processes in Care) is a breakthrough framework of learning and teaching in ambulatory care. The TOPIC model offers guidelines for optimizing a chronic illness visit, a check-up/preventive visit, a new problem visit, a psychosocial visit, or a visit where a behavior change is recommended. The TOPIC guidelines work with any presenting problem and direct the practitioner to apply both the most current medical knowledge, and the most useful skills and approach to each visit. This book offers instructors innovative and practical ways to teach medical students and residents how to implement the TOPIC model. The accompanying CD-ROM contains essential teaching handouts, Power Point slide sets, templates, scripts, evaluation forms, video clips, and more.