There are six major tasks required of clinical teachers:

1. Preparing your work environment

2. Orienting the learner

3. Facilitating learners developing the thinking skills of physicians

4. Facilitating learners ability to act like physicians

5. Assessing learners progress in becoming physicians

6. Assessing your effectiveness as a clinical teacher.

"We must acknowledge again that the most important, indeed, the only, thing we have to offer our students is ourselves. Everything else they can read in a book or discover independently, usually with a better understanding than our efforts can convey." Tosteson DC. Learning in Medicine. N Engl J Med. 1979:301(13):690­4



Another important area to consider is Teaching International Medical Graduates. Read about Family Medicine residency in Portugal.

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