DEVELOPING A MODEL FOR CLINICAL TEACHING & LEARNING.

Abstract

Ward based clinical teaching on admitted patients has
been gold standard of clinical teaching for long time.
However, this heavily on availability of patients with variety of diseases being present at the time of teaching.
The agreement that primary health can should be promoted and whenever possible, patients should be treated in the community and in ambulatory setting has also
resulted in reduction of pool of patients available for
clinical teaching. Admitted patients can be too sick to
participate in learning. They may not be willing to participate in learning. The need for planned, structured, integrated, deep and active leaning with proper schema
activation promoting higher level of cognition, developing good clinical and communication skills, and excellent attitudes based on ethical principles has promoted
clinical teaching to look for ways to supplement traditional ward based teaching. New trends have been
identified which need be incorporated in any planned,
structured teaching programme.
I have developed a model for teaching and learning clinical surgery based on the current trends in clinical setting.