Community-Based Medical Education

This handbook provides a concise overview of information required to implement educational strategies, offers direction on academic principles and teaches clinicians how to manage learners. Designed specifically with busy physicians in mind, it is organized to act as both a quick trouble-shooting resource and a reflective educational guide.

Len Kelly is a Rural Physician at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada.

Foreword. Table of contents. Introduction. Community based medical education. Contracting. Monitoring. Feedback and evaluation. Teaching. Bedside teaching. Learner's perspective. Difficult learner. Setting up a teaching practice. Culture and medicine. Teaching IMGs. Interdisciplinary teams. Inner city rotations. Rural rotations. Operating room. Teaching procedures. Preventive care. Care of the elderly. Palliative care. Research. Professional development. Teaching professionalism. Relationship and boundary issues. Preventing burnout. Keeping up with the literature. Generalism.