A practical guide for medical teachers / Edited by John A. Dent, Ronald M. Harden, Dan Hunt ; foreword by Brian D. Hodges.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS
SECTION I: Curriculum development --
1. New horizons in medical education --
2. Curriculum planning and development --
3. The undergraduate curriculum --
4. Postgraduate medical education: a 'pipeline' to competence --
5. Continuing professional development --
6. The hidden curriculum --
SECTION 2: Learning situations --
7. Lectures --
8. Learning in small groups --
9. Learning with patients: inpatient and outpatient --
10. Learning in the community --
11. Learning in rural and remote locations --
12. Learning in longitudinal integrated clerkships --
13. Learning in a simulated environment --
14. Distance education --
SECTION 3: Educational strategies and technologies --
15. Outcome-based education --
16. Integrated learning --
17. Interprofessional education --
18. Problem-based learning --
19. Team-based learning --
20. Using digital technologies --
21. Instructional design --
SECTION 4: Curriculum themes --
22. Basic sciences and curriculum outcomes --
23. Social and behavioural sciences in medical school curricula --
24. Clinical communication --
25. Ethics and attitudes --
26. Professionalism --
27. Evidence-based medicine --
28. Patient safety and quality of care --
29. Medical humanities --
30. Integrative medicine in the training of physicians --
31. Global awareness --
32. Medical education in an era of ubiquitous information --
SECTION 5: Assessment --
33. Concepts in assessment including standard setting --
34. Written assessments --
35. Performance and workplace assessment --
36. Portfolios, projects and theses --
37. Feedback, reflection and coaching: a new model --
38. The assessment of attitudes and professionalism --
39. Programmatic assessment --
SECTION 6: Staff --
40. Staff development --
41. Academic standards and scholarship --
SECTION 7: Students --
42. Student selection --
43. Student support --
44. Student engagement in learning --
45. Peer-assisted learning --
SECTION 8: Medical school --
46. Understanding medical school leadership: medical teachers as agents of change --
47. Medical education leadership --
48. The medical teacher and social accountability --
49. The educational environment --
50. Medical education research.

"The Sixth Edition of the highly praised Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides a bridge between the theoretical aspects of medical education and the delivery of enthusiastic and effective teaching in basic science and clinical medicine. Healthcare professionals are committed teachers and this book is an essential guide to help them maximise their performance. This highly regarded book recognises the importance of educational skills in the delivery of quality teaching in medicine. The contents offer valuable insights into all important aspects of medical education today. A leading educationalist from the USA joins the book's editorial team. The continual emergence of new topics is recognised in this new edition with nine new chapters: The role of patients as teachers and assessors; Medical humanities; Decision-making; Alternative medicine; Global awareness; Education at a time of ubiquitous information; Programmative assessment; Student engagement; and Social accountability. An enlarged group of authors from more than 15 countries provides both an international perspective and a multi-professional approach to topics of interest to all healthcare teachers. -- Publisher.