Teaching and learning in outpatients and beyond: how ambulatory care teaching can contribute to student learning in child health.

摘要

While this quote from Professor Sir Roy Meadow dates back to 1979, the sentiment still holds, although the challenges we face in delivering high quality undergraduate teaching in today’s NHS are different. Medical school teaching in child health has traditionally been focused on the clinical problems seen in children, as inpatients, in tertiary care teaching hospitals. In recent years there has been a move to reduce inpatient stays and develop a more ambulatory model, with children being seen in rapid access or review clinics, to try to minimise the frequency and duration of inpatient stays. It is therefore even more important that the teaching we offer in these outpatient settings is of high quality and exposes students to a wide range of paediatric health and illness profi les.