Since I'm very interested in learning teaching skills required for a resident, I bought this book at the Toronto Bookstore and added it to my Teaching Skill series.

Today your Attending physician (or the Consultant) does not have enough time to teach the medical students. Some of them start to ask you many questions. Now the burden lies on you as a resident to teach them, but you are hesitant to do so ! You're worried about how to deliver the message using a simple and easy-to-follow method for teaching them.
Another scenario, you are on-call, and you ask your clinical clerk a question but she does not seem to be interested in answering you, since she is exhausted. The question is (How do you recognize the "teachabe moment"?).
As we can see, residents play an important role as teachers. In fact, they are responsible for as much as 80% of student teaching. They will be attending physicians one day, and they will have to teach medical students and other residents too. Teaching and communicating are a requirements for the competency of a physician. Now a question is raised (Who will teach the teachers?)

This book effecienctly provides practical guidance to plan, organize, and run a teaching skills program for medical residents.

It's well referenced and uses the most recent research in learning theories and clinical teaching strategies.

- The only obvious drawback of this book is its complicated language. Sometimes I had to re-read a paragraph to understand what te author wants to say.

This book is divided int 2 Parts:

Part 1 (Information and ideas) covers many chapters including:
(Sir William Osler), (Social learning theory and the development of clinical performance), (Clinical teaching techniques for residents), (Observing, developing, and reflecting on residents' teaching strategies), (Planning and implementing a teaching-skills improvement program for residents), (Residents as teachers: evaluating programs and performance), and (Interpretation and projections).

Part 2 (Materials for teaching-skills programs) covers 4 sections:

A). The role of the senior resident team: team manager, leader, and teacher.
Introduction, Course background and evaluation, Course description, Development of a resident teaching skills course, Teaching course Manual for residents, Supervising patient care, Attending interactions, Resident as teacher, Micro-skills of teaching, Feedback and evaluation, Problem behaviors in residents, Substance use, Sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Section B. Teaching materials for pediatric residents: three modules.
Module I: The student-teacher relationship.
Module II: Teaching in small groups.
Module III: Giving and receiving feedback.

Section C. Teaching skills modules.

Section D. Forms for evaluation of resident teaching-skills programs and resident performance.

It is the 1st edition (2002), and comes in 254 pages; published by Springer Pub Co, in a hardcover copy.

This book is recommended for Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the medical field, interns, residents, chief residents and Program Directors.

Another book I would recommend is (Teaching Tips: Strategies, Reseach, and Theory for College and University Teachers), 11th ed, 2002, for Wilbert J. McKeachie. This book uses simpler language and information, but it's not directed toward medical educators. However, I found it also very useful.

Enjoy reading & learning from this book !

Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict addresses the struggles we all go through, from one time or another, in our personal interactions with others. The authors guide the reader through conflicts they have mediated, from the organizational to the feuding next-door neighbors, vis-à-vis stories of these conflicts and how they successfully or not so successfully mediated them. Cloke & Goldsmith do not profess to have all the answers to conflict resolution and state this throughout their text. They offer that through conducting mediations, they themselves are learning more about the mediation process. It is in this spirit, the spirit of learning and discovering for oneself the possible answers/solutions to a problem or situation, that makes this book so worthwhile. Their insights range from mediations where true resolution simply cannot be achieved but new policies or guidelines can be implemented as an outcome of the conflict to prevent it from occurring again, to openly discussing potentially explosive issues (based on past experiences) in the early stages before they do in fact become full-blown conflict. Cloke & Goldsmith do not hold back any punches in this text, they tell each conflict story just as it was, no sugar coating here, and in so doing, bring the reader right into the picture with them. Chapter 5 in this book had just such an impact on me, so much so, that I made copies of it for several individuals involved in my own work situation to review. A picture may be worth a thousand words, and in the case of this style of text, that of learning through honest and real stories, then a story may indeed be worth a thousand pictures...

Yes, it is greatly enjoyable to read intellectually elegant concepts. There is plenty of them in this second volume of Quandaries. This is what really brings progress to medicine. Ackerman certainly is there together with people like Virchow or Rokitansky.

This book of essays is one of my most favorite books about lesbian herstory.

Joan Nestle is a co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, and her passion for remembering and honoring lesbian life and culture can be seen in this collection. From the perspective of a witness/participant in the pre-Stonewall era of gay life in NYC, Nestle recreates the courage and the struggles of lesbians to find each other and create community in the '50s and '60s. Nestle's writing is beautiful and moving; this book is unique.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants an understanding of lesbian life and culture during these particular years; I especially recommend this book for younger lesbians and gay men who are interested in understanding the lives and sacrifices of the generation previous, who helped create what we know and enjoy as contemporary lesbian and gay culture.

this story is great true follow up to what happened to many of the prisoners of war that built the bridge over the river kwai. it deserves a shot at being made into a movie as it is an exciting true life drama. i should know, my father is 1st. class torpedoman robert bennett of the u.s.s. pampanito

Joan McAfee's Riddle Of The Lost Gold is a superbly presented historical novel about Colonel George Armstrong Custer's mission at Fort Hays. Vividly characterized and dynamically written, Riddle Of The Lost Gold follows a persistent young teenager and her friend who seek to solve an enigma handed through generations since Custer's 1867 battle. An involving story for young adults and historical fiction buffs, Riddle Of The Lost Gold is enthusiastically recommended for school and community fiction collections for young readers.

For new homeowners or experienced gardeners, this book is filled with simple, ingenious techniques for landscaping with a minimum of sweat, time, and natural resouces. In addition to covering flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees, and other plant types, the book has a most useful section on lawns and groundcovers. It also includes information on pruning and other techniques. The layout is user-friendly, and the illustrations are plentiful and easy to follow. Nearly everyone who comes to my house asks to borrow this book!

In "The Romance of the New World," Joan Pong Linton explores the ways in which fiction and non-fiction from the mid-1580's through the mid-1620's responded to England's earliest colonial ventures in America. Linton tracks the beginnings of what she sees as the literary formation of a proto-"bourgeois" ethic which utilizes the shifting standards of romance to cement a patriarchal model in both the domestic and political arenas. Portrayals of Native Americans and English women serve as foils to establishing the dominance of the English male, at times even at the expense of Queen Elizabeth.

Linton asserts that New World pamphleteers like Sir Walter Ralegh, Thomas Hariot, Sir Francis Drake, and John Smith, among others, use and adapt the tropes of romance to encourage new investors and adventurers to build interest in colonizing the New World. The interplay between history and fiction is mutually affective on both fiction and non-fiction, as romance writers in poetry and prose alter the form and setting of traditional court romance to reflect social and economic changes in late Elizabethan England. As English explorers like Drake and Ralegh leave the court to improve their fortunes and their social status, romance writers begin to change the ways that heroes alter their own fates through enterprise and action, moving away from the dalliance and intrigues of court.

Linton sees Edmund Spenser, author of "The Faerie Queene," as a mediator in the transition between courtly romance and the romance of the bourgeois individual. In her examinations of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and "Colin Clouts Come Home Againe," Linton argues that Spenser's familiarity with various colonial writings, including those of Ralegh result in a heightened sensitivity to the changing nature of the heroic in romance as well as to English imperial aspirations abroad. Linton's most extensive treatments of Spenser are found in chapters 2 and 5. In chapter 2, Linton shows how Ralegh's written self-identification with Redcrosse and Guyon illustrate the changing face of the romance hero and act as justification and idealization of his colonial exploits. In the context of the mutually transformative nature of literary and political discourses, Linton goes on to show how Spenser defends Ralegh in "Colin Clout" and manages to invest the aims of empire with notions of Protestant propriety. Chapter 5 discusses "Faerie Queene, book 6"'s presentation of Serena, Calepine and the cannibals in the context of English colonial encounters with Native Americans. A book of equal interest to Renaissance, Spenserian, and Early American scholars, Linton's "The Romance of the New World" is an invaluable critical work.

Having seen the movie before reading the novel, I must admit I was a little doubtful as to whether it would be just as good or not. I'm happy to say I was not disappointed. And neither will you.

This is a great book! Tamika Whitmore will most likely be Most Improved Player of the Year for 2002 and she is just an awesome player and person. This is definitely a must have for any Liberty fan.