Interpreting educational concepts for the teaching family physician: some parallels between patient care and undergraduate clinical education
Tiberius, R.G.
Journal of Family Practice 5(3): 395-398
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-3509 PMID: 903751 Document Number: 119314
Three of the most widely used concepts in education, objectives, curriculum, and evaluation, have direct parallels in primary care. This parallelism suggests an approach which may help family physicians both in understanding these educational concepts and in applying them with judgment. By drawing specific attention to the parallels and by the use of examples drawn both from clinical practice and from teaching, the author hopes to encourage physicians to view their teaching as an analog of clinical skills that are already familiar to them. This approach is applied to the problem of accommodating to individual differences in students, the most difficult obstacle to the proper application of educational concepts.