Overview
- Draws upon extensive professional experience
- Informed by cognitive science and the evidence for adult learning
- Emphasizes the application of concepts to teaching practice
Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE, volume 20)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- learner-centered medical teaching
- science of learning
- science of instruction
- self-regulated learning
- asynchronous e-learning
- distance learning
- interprofessional education
- health professions programs
- adult learning
- flipped classrooms
- case-based learning
- teaching to develop scientific engagement
- role of memory, recall and learning
- medical curriculum
About this book
The book builds upon and extends the content of the second edition by incorporating additional content to reflect advances in cognitive science and by updating existing chapters to keep pace with modern educational trends and technologies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kelly M. Quesnelle, PhD is Professor and Chair of Biomedical Sciences at The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Dr. Quesnelle is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate degree in Molecular Pharmacology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Quesnelle completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that included a training fellowship with the United States Food and Drug Administration in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. She was a founding faculty member at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. Dr. Quesnelle has directed medical student courses, taught extensively throughout the pharmacology discipline, and has served as Chair of an IRB and co-Chair of a Curriculum Committee. Her educational research focuses on teaching innovations, curricular integration, and the reward and recognition of basic science educators. She is a past recipient of the Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation from the International Association of Medical Science Educators.
William Jeffries, PhD is currently the Vice Dean for Medical Education and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in Pharmacology from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in the Department of Pharmacology. In his role at Geisinger he is responsible for oversight of the medical curriculum, student affairs and admissions. He has held similar positions at the medical schools of the University of Vermont and at Creighton University. Dr. Jeffries’ scholarly efforts in medical education include effective teaching through active learning, curriculum design, strategic institutional planning and technological innovation. He has served in leadership roles on numerous national groups and committees of the Association for American Medical Colleges, the International Society of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The American Heart Association. He has been a long-term contributor for national and regional faculty development programs of these organizations, contributing numerous workshops and seminars, and he has authored more than 100 scholarly works. He received IAMSE’s Master Scholar Award in 2017.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Medical Teaching
Book Subtitle: The Foundations of Curriculum Design, Delivery, and Assessment
Editors: Kathryn N. Huggett, Kelly M. Quesnelle, William B. Jeffries
Series Title: Innovation and Change in Professional Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85524-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85523-9Published: 17 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85526-0Published: 18 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85524-6Published: 16 March 2022
Series ISSN: 1572-1957
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9957
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVI, 337
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Premedical Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Education, general