Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Community Medicine, International Medical University (IMU), No, 126, Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 5700 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ankurbarua26@yahoo.com
BMC Med Educ, 2013;13:128.
PMID: 24044727 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-128

Abstract

Effective teaching in medicine is essential to produce good quality doctors. A number of studies have attempted to identify the characteristics of an effective teacher. However, most of literature regarding an effective medical teacher includes student ratings or expert opinions. Furthermore, interdisciplinary studies for the same are even fewer. We did a cross-sectional study of the characteristics of effective teachers from their own perspective across medicine and dentistry disciplines.

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