Doha: The benefits that improved teaching can bring to healthcare were discussed at this year’s Educators Across the Health Care Spectrum event held at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
The annual three-day event, which was held from January 21 to 23, featured speeches and various workshops in which educators discussed how teaching methods could be improved.
This year, the keynote speech, titled “Improving Patient Care Through Improved Teaching,” was given by Professor Scott Richardson, an international expert on teaching evidence-based health care. He shared his views with healthcare professionals from across Doha at the event, which was hosted by WCMC-Q’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) division in association with HMC and introduced by Dr Amal Khidir, chair of the organising committee. Medical staff and academics in the Hajar Auditorium at HMC also received a live transmission of the keynote address.
In addition, a series of workshops on a variety of topics were conducted over three days. Topics included teaching evidence-based medicine and clinical reasoning in clinical settings; enhancing our learners’ clinical reasoning skills; and incorporating EBM into our teaching.
Dr Khidir said the interest and energy during discussion and evaluation of the Educators Across the Health Care Spectrum highlighted the determination of educators to change, as well as their interest in actually incorporating evidence-based teaching.
He said: “The discussion and interactions in these workshops emphasised the movement in Qatar towards inter-professional education.
“I see this activity, and more to come, as an opportunity to continue the collaborative spirit and exchange of expertise across the healthcare spectrum.”
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