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Rx for Faculty Development
Whitman Associates offers handbooks and books on medical teaching that are used in medical schools and teaching hospitals through the United States, Canada, and around the world. With over 200,000 copies in print, the impact of this body of work on medical education has been widespread and profound.
Readers and reviewers have commented that these materials "focus on physicians' inherent strengths" and offer "practical and insightful" suggestions that are "immediately applicable to daily training of students and residents."
This set of publications comprises a complete "bookshelf" for faculty developers and for individuals who wish to embark on a journey to become better teachers.
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| There Is No Gene for Good Teaching: A Handbook on Lecturing for Medical Teachers, 2nd Edition |
| Neal Whitman |
| Price: $15.00 |
| ISBN: 0-940193-00-0 |
| The premise of this handbook is that good teachers are made, not born. This handbook helps medical teachers plan and organize lectures that will attract and maintain attention. Included is an observation tool that provides a checklist for important aspects of lecturing. 34 pages |
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| A Handbook for Group Discussion Leaders: Alternatives to Lecturing Medical Students to Death, 3rd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Thomas L. Schwenk |
| Price: $15.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-5-3 |
| This handbook considers group discussion as an alternative to lecturing when the medical teacher is aiming at higher levels of student thinking or is addressing attitudes, beliefs, or values. Questioning, brainstorming, and case-based teaching are described in detail. An observation tool provides a checklist for important aspects of leading group discussions. An application exercise is designed to help you and your colleagues enliven group discussions. 56 pages |
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| Preceptors as Teachers: A Guide to Clinical Teaching, 2nd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Thomas L. Schwenk |
| Price: $15.00 |
| ISBN: 0-940193-04-3 |
| This handbook recognizes that, just as diagnosis comes before treatment, assessment precedes instruction. Specific tips are given to help preceptors assess and teach knowledge, attitude, and skills as well as to give feedback and evaluate students and residents. 30 pages |
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| Residents as Teachers: A Guide to Educational Practice, 3rd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Thomas L. Schwenk |
| Price: $20.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-3-7 |
| Lectures and grand rounds, conferences and journal clubs, morning report and teaching rounds are described in terms of typical resident scenarios. Five principles are provided for each type of teaching with suggestions for implementation. The reader will learn how to ìteach anybody anything.î This book often is used as the basis of a workshop to teach housestaff how to teach. 106 pages |
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| The Chief Resident as Manager, 3rd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Elaine Weiss |
| Price: $25.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-6-1 |
| Entirely new - updated and rewritten in 2007 - this book addresses the management skills required of senior house staff. Topics include communication, time management, meeting management, conflict resolution, feedback, delegation, motivation, lecture skills, and clinical teaching. 174 pages |
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| Executive Skills for Medical Faculty, 3rd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Elaine Weiss |
| Price: $25.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-4-5 |
| Entirely new - updated & rewritten in 2006 - this book is aimed at medical faculty who have, or aspire to, a leadership position. These include principal investigators, section chiefs, division or department heads, ceans, or health science center administrators. Topics include communication styles, negotiation skills, strategic planning methods, change implementation, team building, coaching, and developing a long-range personal career plan. 195 pages. |
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| Physician As Teacher, 2nd Edition |
| Neal Whitman & Thomas L. Schwenk |
| Price: $25.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-0-2 |
| Every physician, whether in academic medicine or in private practice, is also a teacher...of medical students, residents, colleagues, and other health professionals. This book addresses the major responsibilities a clinical teacher confronts daily. The first section provides a sound, practical foundation for effective teaching as a form of communication that comes naturally to physicians. The second section examines specific teaching formats: lectures, group discussions, teaching rounds & morning report, bedside teaching, and ambulatory teaching. 275 pages. |
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| Creative Medical Teaching |
| Neal Whitman |
| Price: $25.00 |
| ISBN: 0-9647117-2-9 |
| This book proposes that medical teachers are creative when what they teach is useful and how they teach is novel. To help medical teachers find more than one right answer to the teaching situations they face every day, the book offers over one hundred cross-referenced topics ó literally hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques to improve teaching. 232 pages |
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| Notes of a Medical Educator |
| Neal Whitman |
| Price: $25.00 |
| ISBN: 0-940193-12-4 |
| The observations, reflections, and connections offered in these 50 short essays are aimed to help medical teachers see themselves honestly and to define their role in the teaching-learning process. Summarizing more than 30 years in academic medicine, Dr. Whitman draws on his rich experiences as an "education doctor," providing innovative ways to think about the teaching-learning process. 169 pages |
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