Learning and teaching is rarely intuitive in the various environments that is surgery
and surgical residency. It is a learned endeavor that had followed in the historical
traditions of on the job training.
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This study utilizes frameworks and surveys in the area of education to discern teaching
and learning styles of faculty and residents in one general surgery residency program.
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Attendings completed inventories on learning preferences, teaching style, and self-perceived
teaching effectiveness. Residents completed this same teaching effectiveness instrument
for each of their attendings. The most common attending learning preference was multimodal.
The teaching style of ‘big conference teacher’ had lower scores by the residents for
‘professional attitude towards surgical residents’. ‘The one-off teacher’ correlated
to a higher overall teaching rating and learning climate scores. The ‘official curriculum
teacher’ drew higher professional attitudes toward resident scores. The attending
self-assessment findings reported were that attendings underestimated their teaching
effectiveness compared to residents’ perceptions of them in communication of goals,
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 28, 2020
Accepted:
September 20,
2020
Received:
September 18,
2020
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