Course Highlights

This course equips you with the tools to:

• Innovate your own teaching strategies and formats
• Facilitate resident learning
• Evaluate resident and program goals and problems
• Address important considerations in academic faculty career development
• Improve clinical and surgical skills teaching
• Plan and implement better resident rotations
• Evaluate the current effectiveness of your own teaching practices
• Address important aspects of career planning

Session topics include:

• Guiding Educational Principles
• Approaches to Teaching
• Fostering Learning In the Clinic
• Planning a Resident Rotation
• Teaching Surgical Skills
• Orthopaedic Workforce & Implications for Patient Care
• Your Career as an Orthopaedic Educator
• Challenging Competencies

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for orthopaedic educators, residency program directors, instructional course chairs, and other orthopaedic surgeons responsible for resident education.

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