Alice Ruo Wei Tang, MD
Resident in Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital
PGY 1
02/26/2021
Attending this session allowed me to
practice generating a lesson plan, teaching in front of an audience, and
receiving feedback on how to improve. Adult learning theory was key in reminding
me how to help learners learn. One key takeaway was that people will look for
patterns even where none exist, so giving enough information to allow reasoning
from first principles and crafting an easy-to-follow narrative is the best way
to maximize success. I feel more excited to teach and take on academic
leadership roles in the future. Medicine is highly structured and
experience-dependent; at all stage we are simultaneously teachers and students.
I think it’s important to have some amount of teaching experience and
understand the needs and challenges to ultimately provide better care to our
patients. Day to day, I teach medical students on the floors and this course
has helped me structure short teaching sessions that are easy to slot in to
morning rounds.
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