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Community-Based Teaching Benefits
What are the benefits of community-based teaching?
- The benefits
of community teaching for students and residents have been apparent
for some time1.
- More recently, studies have shown that teaching practices are more
innovative and have higher practice standards and that the vast majority
of patients
enjoy and benefit from having learners in the practice2.
- Studies of physicians who teach can be summarized as concluding that
teaching is "hard work but very worthwhile."
- Most physicians report that having a student in the office adds 45-60
minutes per day but much depends on the individual student and teacher1.
- Data on residents indicate that they can actually save time for community
teachers.
- Studies show that patient flow and billings generally do not change
when teaching. Most physicians teach in the course of patient care
and in traveling time, during meals and breaks, and in "shop talk" sessions
before and after clinic hours1.
- With good organization and a few basic teaching skills, community-based
education of students and residents should be a highly positive experience
for the learner, the patients, the practice, and the teacher.
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 What
are the advantages of teaching in your practice?
What
concerns do you have about teaching in your practice?
1 COGME 13th Report. Physician Education for a Changing Health Care
Environment. March 1999.
2 O'Malley PG, Omori Dm, Landry FJ et al. A prospective study to assess
the effect of ambulatory teaching on patient satisfaction and Vinson
D. 1999.
For informal commentary by community teachers see . . .
- Greensway D, Help! There’s a Medical Student in My Office.
ACP Observer. October 1995.
- Roy PJ, Four Myths about Using Med Students.
Medical Economics. September 1995.
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