Module 5: Clinical Teaching

The student/resident analyzes information about the patient by breaking it into component parts and using the parts to develop the diagnosis or to develop a management plan. The components are the basis for the process of reaching a decision by ruling in or ruling out-hypothesis testing.	In the process of synthesizing information, component parts are pieced together in different formats to develop new information-forming a differential diagnosis and a management plan. Open-ended questions or inquiry are the primary teaching strategy.
Teaching Task: This problem solving process is teaching the way that physicians practice medicine. While much of medical practice is pattern recognition, the challenge of medicine (the art of medicine) is problem solving. Medical students and residents will most likely know more basic science and will probably be more up-to-date in some aspects of clinical medicine than you as the preceptor. The most important aspect of medicine you have to offer is the clinical wisdom that comes from experience.