Learning To Teach

Julia Carlson, MD

Fellow in Neurocritical Care 

Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital 

PGY 5

03/04/2021

Julia Carlson, MD

Academic medicine has many components to the “hidden curriculum,” with perhaps one of the most omnipresent being the expectation that all residents, fellows, and attendings double as teachers on the wards and the clinics.  Teaching how to be a teacher is no small undertaking – it’s why teachers go to school to obtain degrees in the discipline.  Luckily for us, the Center of Expertise in Medical education is offering seminars in clinical teaching. A short but thorough introduction into the major concepts of pedagogy will help trainees of all levels to gain tools and the confidence needed to return to the wards as clinician educators.  As a part of this course, we practiced and received feedback on a five-minute lesson we prepared on topics we have come across working with our colleagues from different disciplines to gain insight into where we currently stand as teachers.  By exposing and better equipping trainees to be model teachers on the wards, we can continue to improve a culture of excellent clinical education.