Opinion abstract
British Dental Journal 198, 459 - 460 (2005)
Published online: 23 April 2005 | doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.4812248
Those who can, teach, but who teaches the learners to learn?
- Delivering postgraduate courses to an audience of mixed experience can be difficult.
- Educational objectives and learning outcomes, based on the intended audience, need to be defined by those commissioning courses.
- Successful postgraduate education requires the participants to be prepared in an educational sense for the courses they are to attend.
Abstract
This article was stimulated by Mike Grace's editorial Can those who do — teach?1 I have been an undergraduate and postgraduate teacher for over 30 years and I agreed with everything that Mike said about the difficulties of combining doing and teaching. The best doers may not make the best teachers and conversely the best teachers are not always incapable of doing, whatever some colleagues may think to the contrary!