Pre-departure goals emphasized the transfer of knowledge/skills, teaching, and working to change systems.
They improved their teamwork, leadership and management skills based on the theories provided in the teaching, and through working as part of a MDT.
We provide resources for graduate students as they develop professional skills in teaching in higher education, and we work with faculty and departments to assist them in the mentoring and training they offer graduate students in teaching.
Despite their importance in teaching undergraduates they are not involved in any formal training in teaching and leadership skills.
But for those with an interest in teaching, working on teaching skills during the postdoc is probably not a bad idea, as long as it does not impact research productivity.
Ward rounds represent a complex task requiring not only medical knowledge but also communication skills, clinical skills, teaching skills, patient management skills and team-work skills [ 7- 9].
How imagination, fictional and historical narratives, anger, friendship, and teaching skills can be useful in working for change.
Although not specifically trained to teach basic laparoscopic skills, they work as consultants in teaching hospitals and have at least 5 years of experience in these skills courses.
Moberg (2014) proposes action-based methods for teaching enterprise skills, consisting of working in groups, where active participation, discussion and debate in class are encouraged, while practical application of previously learnt theory takes place.
Methods used to teach skills were role-plays, working with videotapes, interview training, and contact with real patients.
LEGO Mindstorms not only teaches coding and programming, but also encourages the kind of engineering and creative skills involved in working with physical gears.
