The Best Teachers Practice Refection Jos E Rodrguez

The Best Teachers Practice Refection José E Rodríguez MD Associate Professor Family Medicine and Rural Health Florida State University College of Medicine

Abstract After completing fellowship, the teaching and learning techniques and skills that we learned faded with time, but we were specifically told that the “best teachers practice reflection. ” This skill stayed with us, and when we returned after fellowship, we decided to apply this to our practice with the medical students. The project began as we asked the students to reflect on experiences that they had in their first patient encounters, in anatomy or in the clinical world. As the students found meaningful stories, they sought out faculty members to help them publish their stories. The faculty members also worked to help the medical students find meaning in what they were writing. The project is now on going, and faculty members from across the campus are contributing to this project, which soon will be enough for a book. After the fellowship, we have learned that the best teachers not only practice reflection—they teach it.

Process The best teachers practice reflection During fellowship: Encouragement and Elevation (Family Medicine) Vitamin K deficiency (Academic Medicine) El medico de inmigración (Academic Medicine) I failed (Student BMJ) Heal the profession Conscious effort to connect students with humanity through reflection

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Teaching students Found therapy and healing in reflection SELF-DISCOVERY Word got out Third grade and the new me Precocious parenthood Remembering the awakening

Inspiration

HEAL Summer projects Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature Monthly share meeting Students organized themselves to contribute Incorporated photography, art, and poetry Decided to inspire those who came after with their creative writing

Logistics Funding: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award $1000. 00 Arnold P Gold Foundation Student summer research money Any ideas?

Questions? Contact info: José E. Rodríguez MD Associate Professor Family Medicine 1115 West Call Street #3210 M Tallahassee, FL 32306 jose. rodriguez@med. fsu. edu 850. 645. 6850