The Teaching Clinical Skills 2 elective provides fourth-year students with an opportunity to teach in the ward prep portion of Doctoring 2 course. Each MS4 will mentor 2-4 MS2’s 7 times during their HPE course. On ward prep days, the MS4 will go to their assigned ward (e.g., MP 4 east) and find and consent patients for their students to interview prior to 1 pm. At 1 pm, they will meet with their MS2’s and introduce them to the patients that they will interview. MS4’s will directly observe and coach MS2’s while they interview and perform physical exams and prepare case presentations. They will provide both verbal and written feedback based on their observations. Students will sign up for either Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday afternoons from 1-3:30 pm for the 7 ward prep sessions. If a student is away (e.g. for an interview), they can make up the session covering another group of MS2’s on a different day of the week on that or another week. There will be an orientation session at the beginning of block 15 and teaching development session mid-elective. The student must attend all 7 sessions (unless they have an excused absence) and complete the 7 weekly formative evaluations of their cohort of MS2’s to receive 2-weeks of elective credit.

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