Preparing Interns as Teachers: Teaching Fourth-Year Medical Students the Tenets of the One-Minute Preceptor Model.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Often, interns are expected to teach medical students early in their residency, but most are not formally taught how to be effective teachers before residency. Currently, there is emphasis on developing teaching skills of residents rather than students before they become residents. Most published student-as-teacher courses are voluntary and do not assess skill acquisition.

Methods

We taught 290 fourth-year medical students across two academic years (2020-2022) the tenets of the One-Minute Preceptor (OMP) using a 2-hour workshop during their transition to residency course. A variety of role-play cases allowed students to practice the different parts of the OMP in isolation and combined. Then, we assessed their teaching skills after the workshop using an objective

SUBMITTER: Vick S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10749993 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature