A lot of medical education happens at the bedside, with doctors straddling dual roles in teaching a trainee and ensuring the patient receives competent care.
Thomas Jefferson University is joining a growing number of universities offering programs to develop the teaching skills of medical providers. “[Medical professionals] are kind of just thrust into the role of being a teacher,” Shruti Chandra, an emergency medicine physician who helped develop the new programs. “Almost nobody is really trained or has any sort of advanced education to know how to teach.”formal education training. During her fellowship, she completed a master’s of education in health professions at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.