Clinical Teaching Modes

Abstract

This paper provides a pragmatic usage guide to four major types of clinical instruction-the lecture, tutorial, small group, and supervisory modes of teaching. This guide supplies characteristics which limit the use of each method and presents principles appropriate for the implementation of each clinical mode. The article also cautions the reader regardin various potential problems in the use of clinical instruction and ela rates on the application of teaching modes to clinical instruction. k, Expanding libraries of knowledge require ongoing refinements in the presentation of information to be taught. Amid reports of neglected attention to instructional skill training for clinical teachers awareness of the need for balance between information delivery and learning process factors to promote