Clinical Educators Faculty Development Module (On-Demand)-Getting Excited About Clinical Education

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The speaker, Dr. Binney from PCOM, introduces a lecture on clinical education and explains why it matters for training future physicians. She emphasizes the benefits of becoming a clinical educator, including staying current in medicine, supporting recruitment, improving patient education, reducing workload, energizing the practice, and giving back to the profession. She also highlights the growing need for clinical educators due to hospital consolidation, increasing medical school enrollment, and competition for training sites.<br /><br />The lecture then reviews foundational educational theories: behaviorist learning, which focuses on stimulus and response; cognitive theory, which emphasizes reasoning and mental processing; and sociocultural theory, which views learning as occurring within systems and tools. She next discusses adult development stages—self-sovereign, socialized, self-authored, and self-transforming—and explains how understanding these stages helps educators better support learners.<br /><br />Dr. Binney also covers adult learning principles, learning styles, Kolb’s learning cycle, millennial learner characteristics, and ways to build a learning culture using simulation, e-learning, flipped classrooms, and gamification. Finally, she addresses emotional intelligence and mentorship, arguing that effective education depends on self-awareness, empathy, adaptability, leadership, and strong mentor relationships.

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clinical education

clinical educator

medical training

educational theory

adult learning

simulation

emotional intelligence

mentorship