In a podcast recorded during the “Digital Education and Strategies for Implementing the Flipped Classroom” conference at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar in October 2017, Mr. Sa’ad Laws talked to Dr. Traci Wolbrink about her experiences in medical education, OPENPediatrics,...
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The doctor will talk to you now
Besides health professionals’ expertise in care, communication is important for patient wellbeing3. Proper communication illuminates with empathy what is important for a patient. This will make it more likely that patients change their attitudes and behavior—after all, to agree on...
Training teachers to act rather than react
“Content expertise”, as noted recently, does not equal “teaching expertise.” Moreover, the age gap between teachers and learners means that teachers too often teach the way they were taught, whereas the learners use ways of knowledge acquisition unknown to their...