This is an up-to-date book for the busy medical teacher, suitable for all grades of teacher experience and all clinical specialties. The chapters cover aspects of teaching from preparation, basic teaching skills, to the use of teaching resources, evaluation, assessment and curriculum planning. Each fully referenced chapter provides practical suggestions for busy clinicians, and easy to photocopy resources to enable teachers to put ideas into practice. The book supports the practical advice with the key evidence and theories underlying current medical education, allowing it to be used for both last minute planning as well as acting as a carefully constructed introduction to teaching medical undergraduates in the hospital or the community.

Readership: Teachers in primary and secondary care, novice medical teachers, professionals in allied health who teach medical students

1. Introduction 2. Learning and teaching 3. Preparing for teaching 4. Basic teaching skills 5. Content of session 6. Designing and using teaching materials 7. Teaching different group sizes 8. Teaching in the clinical setting 9. Designing a course 10. Assessing students 11. Evaluating teaching and learning 12. Developing as a teacher Glossary of terms and abbreviation Index

Sarah Hartley , General Practitioner and Educational Consultant, Paris, France, Deborah Gill , Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK, Frances Carter , Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Division of Primary Care and Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK, Kate Walters , MRC Fellow, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK, Pauline Bryant , Clinical Teaching Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK