Armed Forces Academy of Medical
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CLINICAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COURSES
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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COURSE: Sessions 1-4. Total course requires three to
ten days. Course objective is to have all clinical faculty understand and be able to use
general medical teaching concepts. Primary Afghan Medical Faculty for each course is
listed in bold after each session or course.
SESSION 1: Communication of Guidelines and Rotation Objectives (40 – 50 Slides) Dr.
Zabih Asizi
A. Rotation Design
a. Creating a daily and weekly schedule for the rotation
b. Defining Objectives of the Rotation
c. Rotation subject curriculum
d. Designing appropriate reading materials
B. Conducting a Student Orientation
a. How to conduct an appropriate student orientation
b. Explanation of the goals of the clinical rotation
C. Defining Expectations of the Learner
a. Defining expectations
i. Attendance
ii. Punctuality
iii. Appropriate attire for wards
iv. Student responsibility of expansion of medical knowledge and skills
b. Number and type of student / resident oral and written presentations
c. The need to explain the evaluation process / mechanism to students at the
beginning of the rotation
D. Administrative Details
a. Written documentation during the rotation
b. Contact list for key faculty and medical education staff
SESSION 2: Teaching Techniques: Didactic Sessions (40 – 50 Slides) How to prepare
a lecture Dr. Nazir Sherzai
a. Need for objectives and outline
b. Prepare what is important to convey to the learner
c. Use of clear language and simple points
d. Use of humor and anecdotes
B. Public Speaking Techniques
a. Engagement of audience
b. Keeping the attention of the learner
i. Principles of how to interact with students to best convey key
information
C. Adult Learning Principles
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a. Interactive sessions in the classroom
b. How to encourage learning behaviors among the learner
SESSION 3: Teaching Techniques: Clinical Teaching (40 – 50 Slides) Dr. Nizrah
Hamruz
A. Overview of Clinical Teaching
a. The importance of Clinical Teaching
b. When teaching is optimal
c. Where teaching is best done
d. Teaching topics to be covered while rounding on patients
B. Clinical Teaching: Techniques and Styles
a. Appropriate Bedside Teaching Techniques
b. Various styles of teaching
a. Assertive
b. Suggestive
c. Collaborative
d. Facilitative
e. Socratic method
f. Mini-Lectures
c. Student driven patient care
d. How to improve students’ written and oral presentations
C. Motivating the Learner
a. Facilitation of residents/students as teachers to others
b. Presentations to peers and superiors
c. Academic Publications
D. PRACTICAL EXERCISE: Role play / Live illustration of how teacher conducts
rounds and teaches students on the wards
SESSION 4: Providing Feedback and Evaluating Students (40 – 50 Slides) Dr. Shakker
Qaheri
A. Importance of Feedback
a. Define feedback and evaluation mechanisms
b. Importance of feedback for the learning process
c. Types of Feedback
i. Verbal
ii. Non-Verbal
iii. Written
d. Importance of failure / remediation procedures for poor learners
B. Evaluating the Learner’s Performance
a. Direct observation in the hospital
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b. RIME method of evaluation
C. Providing Feedback
a. When/Where to give student feedback during the rotation
i. Brief vs. Formal Feedback
b. Optimal ways to provide feedback
c. Explanation of student evaluation form and how to best complete it with
other professors
d. Discussing the student evaluation form with individual students
e. Helping the learner to use feedback to improve his/her performance
D. PRACTICAL EXERCISE: Role play / Live illustrations of how teacher provides
feedback to student
SUPPLEMENTAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COURSES: Additional faculty training
courses (one to four days per course) to stress and augment teaching and
understanding of core clinical competencies and the development and production of
research and scholarly activity.
A. Professional Behavior and Ethical Standards (four hours). Drs Nazir Sherzai
and Shakker Qaheri.
B. Clinical Decision Making and Information Management (eight hours). Drs Nizra
Hamruz and Zabih Asizi.
C. Development of Clinical Research (six to twelve hours). Dr. Baback and Dr.
Nijrabi
D. Competency Based Curriculum Development (four hours) Dr. Nijrabi and Dr.
Naseem Zabah
E. Clinical Communication Skills (six hours) Dr. Nijrabi and Dr. Naseem Zabah
F. Practice and System Based Learning (eight hours) Dr. Qaheri and Dr. Asizi
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