Workshop: Teaching and Evaluating Reflection

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This workshop focuses on how
to teach and evaluate reflection. Reflective practice has long been a core
value of clinical teaching; but over the last few decades, remarkably little
discussion has occurred about how to teach it and how to evaluate it. This
workshop will have four interactive sessions on these questions. The workshop
will address at least four topics:
·What we teach when we teach
reflection:
discussion of the outcomes for reflective practice and of integrating
reflective practice into clinic design.
·Teaching reflection in the
classroom:
classroom teaching of reflective practice, including rounds, simulations, open
discussion and journaling exercises.
·Supervising individual reflective
practice: how to
talk with and give feedback to students about individual reflective practice,
or to encourage feedback between students, including the methods, the language
and evaluative content of feedback.
·Evaluating and grading reflection: identifying standards of
evaluation for reflection and developing rubrics for reliable and uniform
evaluation.
This workshop will speak to clinicians of all kinds,
in in-house, externship and hybrid courses. In the experience of those who have
presented and consulted on this issue, clinicians mean to foster reflective
practice, but may not have the tools to do so in a structured and transparent
way. This workshop should help participants to find those tools and to foster
more reflective students.