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BOOKS AND WEBSITES TO IMPROVE YOUR TEACHING SKILLS

Teaching in Your Office: A Guide to Instructing Medical Students and Residents (Paperback)

A comprehensive reference for physicians interested in improving their techniques in office-based teaching while maintaining the efficiency of their practice. Covers teaching skills with each topic summarized in an appendix that includes tips, tools, and resources for preceptors. Office-based teaching should be a beneficial and rewarding experience for both teacher and student. However, ambulatory medical education takes place in a fast-paced, often chaotic environment in which there is little time for instruction, observation, and feedback. Consequently, preceptors mistakenly consider the opportunity for their own self-improvement to be limited. It covers teaching skills in a format succinct and focused enough to allow busy clinicians to identify chapters that address their specific needs. Recommended by American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine.

What Makes a Good Teacher? Lessons from Teaching Medical Students
Ronald J. Markert, PhD, Director, Center for Medical Education, Creighton University School of Medicine, in Academic Medicine, August 2001.

Ingredients of Successful Medical Teaching
Richard B. Gunderman, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2004

“Access Medicine” 
UBC’s “Access Medicine” website has numerous electronic books on teaching methods and techniques.
Find them at toby.library.ubc.ca.

 

PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS

As a Clinical Faculty teacher you have certain rights and responsibilities under various laws and if you feel that your rights have been violated there are four organizations that may be able to support you.

Section of Clinical Faculty   www.ucfa.ca

The Section of Clinical Faculty was recognized by the Board of the BC Medical Association in November, 2007. It advocates for excellence in BC medical education and for the rights and responsibilities of clinicians who undertake this education for UBC. The Section wants to hear from, and provide advice and assistance to, any Clinical Faculty teacher whose rights have been put in jeopardy by the University, a Regional Health Authority or hospital. Get in touch with us.

BCMA Legal Department  www.bcma.bc.ca

TEXT TO COME DESCRIBING WHAT SUPPORT THE BCMA PROVIDES TO INDIVIDUAL DOCTORS, AND HOW THE BCMA INTERFACES WITH THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, ie., WHEN YOU SHOULD CALL THE BCMA AND WHO YOU SHOULD ASK FOR.

Canadian Association of University Teachers www.caut.ca

The Canadian Association of University Teachers, based in Ottawa represents some 48,000 academic staff across Canada including teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals. CAUT advances equity and human rights within our profession to fight for fair working conditions, compensation and benefits that foster quality teaching and innovative research. CAUT has played a high-profile role in defending the rights of Clinical Faculty in Ontario (Dr. Nancy Olivieri) and Dr. Cathy Popadiuk, a professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland Copies of the report can be downloaded at: www.popadiukinquiry.ca. For a report on the state of academic freedom for Clinical Faculty in Canada today, click here.

Canadian Medical Protective Association www.cmpa-acpm.ca
The CMPA is a mutual defence organization, not an insurance company,  for physicians who practise in Canada.  Its raison d'être is to protect a member's integrity by providing services of the highest quality including legal defence, indemnification, risk management, educational programs and general advice. It is funded and operated on a not-for-profit basis for physicians, by physicians and its membership of more than 71,000 comprises about 95 per cent of the doctors licensed to practise in Canada.

The CMPA's defence philosophy holds professional integrity as first and foremost; it will vigorously defend a member as long as there is good expert support to do so. CMPA members are eligible for protection independent of their history or track record. CMPA members are eligible to receive a broad spectrum of assistance related to medico-legal difficulties arising from their professional work in Canada. In addition to advice, support and guidance from experienced medical officers on everyday practice issues, assistance is offered in:

• Civil legal actions alleging malpractice or negligence
• Criminal proceedings arising from medical care
• Complaints and disciplinary proceedings related to a licensing body
• Human rights complaints arising from medical care
• Coroners' or other fatality inquiries
• Inquiries about doctors' work or conduct in hospital
• Provincial or territorial billing agency inquiries.

Annual membership fees and the income from investment fund a reserve to handle the costs of future claims. This fund should be considered as already spent, as it provides for the costs of future judgments, settlements, legal expenses and administration for claims related to all the medical care given in the past as well as in the current year. Because the CMPA operates on an occurrence basis, members are eligible to receive assistance regardless of when a claim is made. CMPA protection also ensures that compensation is available for injured patients when they are eligible to receive a settlement or court award.

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