Adherence to Trained Standards After a Faculty Development Workshop on "Teaching With Simulated Patients".

ABSTRACT: Background: Nowadays, faculty development programs to improve teaching quality are considered to be very important by medical educators from all over the world. However, the assessment of the impact of such programs rarely exceeds tests of participants' knowledge gain or self-assessments of their teaching behavior. It remains unclear what exactly is expected of the attending faculty and how the transfer to practice may be measured more comprehensively and accurately. Method: This study evaluates how specific teaching standards were applied after a workshop (10 teaching units) focusing on teaching communication skills with simulated patients. Trained observers used a validated checklist to observe 60 teaching sessions (held by 60 different teachers) of a communication skills c

SUBMITTER: Freytag J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5654119 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature