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Complex stuff can be really hard to teach. So can simple stuff sometimes – like how do you teach someone to wipe their own bum? But here at the 16th International Conference on Teaching Evidence-based Medicine (#tebm2010 to those tweeting) it’s becoming enthusiastically clear that the key elements of teaching anything are the same.<\/p>\n
1. Be interested in what you’re telling us.<\/p>\n
2. Be an expert in something. Not everything.<\/p>\n
3. Connect with your audience.<\/p>\n
4. Learn stuff as you teach and for you to teach.<\/p>\n
And whatever you are hoping folk will learn, try really hard to get the key messages over rapidly – enable proficiency – and let the tincture of time and effort hone that into developed mastery in the years to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Complex stuff can be really hard to teach. So can simple stuff sometimes – like how do you teach someone to wipe their own bum? But here at the 16th International Conference on Teaching Evidence-based Medicine (#tebm2010 to those tweeting) it’s becoming enthusiastically clear that the key elements of teaching anything are the same. […]<\/p>\n