The Medical teacher - Kenneth R Cox

This second, revised edition is intended to provide a useful set of "hands-on" ideas which teachers may use within their personal responsibilities within their faculties. It focuses more attention on the context of that teaching and the medical teacher's role in a rapidly changing scene. Previously the focus was on the teacher-student relationship in grappling with subject matter. However, the editors now raise questions about the teacher and educational planning in the faculty, about the directions of the medical school and the relevance of subject matter, and about the teacher in relation to the patient and the community.;This edition aims to give a strong "ideological" stance on student learning and on student autonomy as the only reasonable focus of teacher activity. Consequently, there is more emphasis on self directed learning, on learning by experience, on self assessment, on adult learning and the student as adult, and on the personal growth of the student in preparation for accepting heavy emotion-laden responsibilities.;Sections are included on the context and expectations of medical education, teaching approaches and helping students to learn, teaching professional skills, assessment, particularly of examinations, and resources such as graphics, slides and other equipment used in teaching.