Are medical schools hesitant to teach undergraduate students teaching skills? A medical student's critical view

Abstract

Junior medical staff provides a large proportion of undergraduate student education. However, despite increasing numbers of resident-as-teacher training programs, junior doctors may still not be sufficiently prepared to teach medical students. Hence, medical schools should consider implementing formal teaching skills training into undergraduate curricula.

Keywords

• medical education
• resident-as-teacher training programs
• teaching skills
• didactics
• student-as-teacher training