Web Resources for Medical Educators

Useful Links to External Sites

• ACGME Outcome Projects
• Good Medical Practice - USA
• Getting Involved in Medical Education
• Medical Education Organizations
• Medical Education Meetings
• Guidebook for clerkship directors from the Alliance for Clinical Educators
• Teaching Times, a publication of the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education at the University of Pittsburgh
• Handbook for medical student educators (emergency medicine)
• SAEM faculty development handbook
• Mentoring for clinician-educators: How to find your mentor
• Constructing written test questions for the basic and clinical sciences, NBME
  A detailed guide to writing exam questions
• How to use and develop materials for use on Navigator, UPSOM's online curriculum system

Download Resources on Teaching Skills

University of New Mexico Teacher & Educational Development:

• Lecturer's Guide to Preparing & Delivering Excellent Lectures
• Preparing a Power Point Presentation
• Giving an Effective Power Point Presentation
• Giving an Effective Lecture or Presentation
• Preparing a Lecture or Presentation
• Precepting: Getting Started, Daily Activities, Bringing Closure
• Seeing Patients and Learner Case Presentations
• Teaching/Learning During Post-Call Rounds
• Strategies for Giving Useful, Constructive Feedback (in Outpatient/Inpatient)

Download Resources on Assessment

• Developing Quality MCQ One-Best-Answer Test Items
• Developing Quality MCQ Extended Matching Test Items
• Developing Quality Essay Question Test Items
• Strategies/Techniques for Activating Learning, Gauging Progress, and Providing Feedback During Teaching/Learning Activities

Download Resources on General Teaching Skills

• Go FAR Teaching Skills Handbook (English)
• GO FAR Teaching Skills Handbook (Farsi)
• How People Learn
• Effective Use of Learning Objectives for Learning and Assessment
• Teaching Strategies/Methodologies: Advantages, Disadvantages/Cautions, Keys to Success

British Medical Journal Series on Medical Education

• BMJ Volume 326 25 January 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Applying educational theory in practice, David M. Kaufman
• BMJ Volume 326 1 February 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Curriculum Design, David Prideaux
• BMJ Volume 326 8 February 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Problem Based Learning, Diana F. Wood
• BMJ Volume 326 15 February 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Evaluation, Jill Morrison
• BMJ Volume 326 22 February 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Teaching large groups, Peter Cantillon
• BMJ Volume 326 1 March 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Teaching small groups, David Jaques
• BMJ Volume 326 8 March 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  One to one teaching and feedback, Jill Gordon
• BMJ Volume 326 15 March 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Learning and teaching in the clinical environment, John Spencer
• BMJ Volume 326 22 March 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Written Assessment, Lambert W.T. Schuwirth, Cees P.M. van der Vieuten
• BMJ Volume 326 29 March 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Skill based assessment, Sydney Smee
• BMJ Volume 326 5 April 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Work based assessment, John J. Norcini
• BMJ Volume 326 12 April 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Educational environment, Linda Hutchinson
• BMJ Volume 326 19 April 2003 ABC of learning and teaching in medicine
  Web based learning, Judy McKimm, Carol Jollie, Peter Cantillon

CIDDE Annual Session

Join Pitt colleagues as they highlight their Innovation in Education grant projects. The Provost’s Advisory Council on instructional Excellence sponsors this University-Wide event to showcase the grant-award winners.