Defining differences in the instructional styles of community preceptors.

Background And Objectives: Variability exists in the instructional experiences of medical students in clinical settings. As relationships between community-based physicians and medical students expand, it is important to promote instructional styles that enhance teaching and learning. This study identified attitudes and approaches toward teaching that distinguish preceptors with high student ratings from those with lower ratings.

Primary care education: measuring instruction to improve quality.

The authors describe a validated instrument to measure instructional quality, using responses from first- and third-year medical students to assess ambulatory training sites.

Identifying the attributes of instructional quality in ambulatory teaching sites: a validation study of the MedEd IQ.

Background: Instructional quality in ambulatory settings may vary. The MedEd IQ is an instrument that measures unique aspects of the clinical instructional process. This study assesses the construct and factorial validity of the MedEd IQ.