Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions

For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments.

Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners.

About the Authors

Sherri Melrose is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University for twenty years. Caroline Park is professor emeritus at Athabasca University, following twenty years dedicated to the work of teaching, research, and administration. Beth Perry is a professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University. She is a co-author of Teaching Health Professionals Online (2013), Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals (2020) and the author of More Moments in Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing (2009).

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. 1. Theoretical Foundations of Teaching and Learning
3. 2. Where Do I Fit In? Articulating a Personal Philosophy
4. 3. The Clinical Learning Environment
5. 4. Maintaining Resilience through Positive Collaborations
6. 5. Professional Socialization of Health-Care Professionals
7. 6. Technology-Enhanced Clinical Education
8. 7. Evaluation of Learning
9. 8. Preceptors: Essential to Learner Success

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