Teaching Medicine

Abstract Time constraints, complex patients, and the involvement of multiple disciplines in the care of patients have necessitated changes in how medical education is delivered on the wards of teaching hospitals. Unlike prior research into medical training, this project focused on the context in which learning happens, and the authors designated the team as the focus of their research. The authors spent time with 18 outstanding attendings and their teams in order to provide a detailed, multi-perspective description of the specific strategies, methods, and even language that the attendings use to teach their learners not only about medicine but also about how to care for patients.