Teaching and Leading Small Groups

Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 124-138

  McCrorie, Peter ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dealing with difficult group members role of tutor running small group teaching sessions; Direction of learning, group as a whole individually as in self directed learning; Flirtatious, 'jokey' or offensive group members; Group size, less important than what a group actually does; Interprofessional learning, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; Learning in small groups sort of halfway house involving active learning; Teaching and leading small groups; Techniques in small groups and brainstorming; Tutors, adopting roles depending on small group sessions; Workshop facilitator single facilitator, looking after more than one group simultaneously

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948976411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320282.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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