Small group medical teaching is challenging and rewarding. When performed well, it allows clinicians to guide their own learning and rephrase the material in their own words. They can clarify questions with the facilitator and their peers and synthesise new concepts and slot them into their existing experience to build new linkages.
Lessons
Introduction to Small Group Medical Teaching
Lesson 1 – General Features of Small Group Teaching
What makes something “Small Group Teaching” – is it numbers of participants, […]
Lesson 2 – Teacher and Learner Characteristics
Small group learning is commonly found in university and post graduate education […]
Lesson 3 – Type 1 – Seminars and Large Group Tutorials
Seminars and Large Group Tutorials These types of small group encounters are […]
Lesson 4 – Type 2 – Problem Based Learning
Problem Based Learning – Solving the open-ended question Howard Barrows and colleagues […]
Lesson 5 – Type 3 – Enquiry Based Learning
Enquiry Based Learning – the focus is on enquiry This teaching method appears to […]
Lesson 6 – Summary
Advantages of Small Group Learning Appeals to adult learners – allows the […]