Resources by Education Topic
Clinical Teaching
Teaching Tips & Didactic Sessions - University of Minnesota, Department of Medicine
Residents' Teaching Skills Site - University of California - Irvine College of Medicine
The One-Minute Preceptor: Five Mircroskills for One-on-One Teaching - Monograph developed by the MAHEC Office of Regional Primary Care Education, Asheville, North Carolina
Resources for Clinicians - Connects you to a list of useful tools via the Bio-Medical Library's homepage (www.biomed.lib.umn.edu), such as Drug References: MicroMedex, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, Natural Standard; Electronic Textbooks: State!Ref, MD Consult, Harrison's Online; and Point-of-Care Resources: ACPTPIER, InfoPOEMS, UpToData; and Evidence-Based Information: Cochrane Library, National Guideline Clearninghouse, and TRIP Database; and Visual Resources: Anatomy.TV, and images.MD. You will need to enter your U of M X500 username and password to fully access these resources.
Evidence-based Medicine
Evidence-Based Practice - a course developed Brad Benson, M.D., Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program, and the U of M Bio-Medical Library.
The BEME Collaboration is a group of individuals or institutions who are committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education.
Teaching and Learning
U of M's Center for Teaching and Learning
Conner, M. L. "How Adults Learn." Ageless Learner, 1997-2007.
Workshop materials, power points, book extracts by Dr. Stephen D. Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Giving Effective Feedback
Giving and Receiving Feedback - Handout from workshop (pdf)
Providing Feedback to Medical Students - Handout from workshop (pdf)
Effective Use of Feedback – a 3-page article by Kaprielian, V.S. and Gradison, M., Duke University Medical Center. Fam Med 1998;30(6):406-7)
Providing Feedback to Learners – a PowerPoint Presentation given to by Dennis Baker, PhD, Director, Office of Faculty Development Ohio University COM/CORE to South Pointe preceptors
Providing Feedback – tips on feedback from the "New Preceptor Packet" located on the Ohio University COM/CORE Office of Faculty Development Web Page
Technology-enhanced Learning
Effective Use of PowerPoint
Active Learning With PowerPoint - U of M Center for Teaching and Learning
Pointers for PowerPointers – Minnesota Medicine, Volume 89, June 2006
An insightful article on how to effectively use PowerPoint, written by Colin Segovis, a medical student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at Mayo Medical School. The Online Resources links in this article no longer work. Here are the correct URLs:
PowerPoint: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – a clearinghouse page from the Dartmouth Biomedical Library on PowerPoint resources
PowerPoint Presentations: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – by Steve Kaminski, Bob Jones University
Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 Dos and Don'ts – by Jeff Wuorio, Microsoft
PowerPoint is Evil – by Edward Tufte, Wired magazine
Instructional Technology at the U of M
At the U of M's Distributed Education & Instructional Technolgoy site you can learn about instructional technology initiatives and a variety of Web-based applications available to the U of M's higher education community.
New Learning Technologies
Learner E-Portfolios: Rethinking the Way We Evaluate Trainees – a Minnesota Medicine online commentary by James Nixon, M.D. and Bradley Benson, M.D.
Integrating New Technologies into Teaching with the Health Sciences Libraries’ Resources - Synopsis of 1/31/08 workshop via UMConnect.
