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Characteristics of Good Clinical Educators from Medical Students’ Perspectives: A Qualitative Inquiry using a Web-Based Survey System

Characteristics of Good Clinical Educators from Medical Students’ Perspectives: A Qualitative Inquiry using a Web-Based Survey System
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Author(s): Gary Sutkin (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA), Hansel Burley (Texas Tech University, USA), Ke Zhang (Wayne State University, USA)and Neetu Arora (Texas Tech University, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 17
Source title: Developments in Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies: Models and Methods
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joseph Tan (McMaster University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-002-9.ch011

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Abstract

Medical educators have a unique role in teaching students how to save lives and give comfort during illness. This article reports a qualitative inquiry into medical students perspectives on the key qualities which differentiate excellent and poor clinical teachers, using a Web-based questionnaire with a purposeful sample of third- and fourth-year medical students. Thirty-seven medical students responded with 465 characteristics and supportive anecdotes. All participants responses were analyzed through reviewing, coding, member checking, recoding and content analysis, which yielded 12 codes. Responses from 5 randomly chosen participants were recoded by two authors with an inter-rater reliability coefficient of 0.72, implying agreement. Finally, 3 larger categories emerged from the data: Content Competence, Teaching Mechanics, and Teaching Dynamics. We incorporate these codes into a diagrammatic model of a good clinical teacher, discuss the relationships and interactions between the codes and categories, and suggest further areas of research.

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