Learning Through Vulnerability: A Mentor-Mentee Experience

Kohar Jones; Shmuel Reis

doi:10.1370/afm.1165

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Re: Teaching using the whole self
Kohar Jones

Published on: 09 December 2010
Peer mentoring
John Launer

Published on: 06 December 2010
The Two-way Street
Dean A. Seehusen

Published on: 22 November 2010
Teaching using the whole self
Jon O. Neher

Published on: 10 November 2010

Published on: (9 December 2010)

Re: Teaching using the whole self
Kohar Jones, Chicago, USA
Thank you for contributing the "One Minute Preceptor" to the medical education armamentarium. It provides a wonderful framework for the teacher to elicit and respond to student learning needs, allowing for the exchange of knowledge and wisdom between two whole selves.
Competing interests: None declared

Competing Interests: None declared.
Published on: (6 December 2010)

Peer mentoring
John Launer, London, UK
Kohar Jones and Shmuel Reis were lucky to encounter each other, as this moving article shows. It makes me wonder how much we might all benefit from being in their roles, whatever our age and position. Here in London we have such a program for observing clinical teaching in family medicine. We could benefit greatly from having this kind of observation and dialogue in our clinical work too. Maybe we could even swap roles a...
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Kohar Jones and Shmuel Reis were lucky to encounter each other, as this moving article shows. It makes me wonder how much we might all benefit from being in their roles, whatever our age and position. Here in London we have such a program for observing clinical teaching in family medicine. We could benefit greatly from having this kind of observation and dialogue in our clinical work too. Maybe we could even swap roles and get our juniors to observe us and give us feedback too?
Competing interests: None declared
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Competing Interests: None declared.
Published on: (22 November 2010)

The Two-way Street
Dean A. Seehusen, Lorton, VA
What resonated with me most as I read the Reflections piece by Jones and Ries was how the interaction was so mutually beneficial. The article nicely shows how it is not only the learner who gets something from a quality teaching encounter. Indeed, it is not only the designated learner who comes away with new knowledge in the best precepting interactions. Great teaching is a collaborative effort and both parties come aw...
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What resonated with me most as I read the Reflections piece by Jones and Ries was how the interaction was so mutually beneficial. The article nicely shows how it is not only the learner who gets something from a quality teaching encounter. Indeed, it is not only the designated learner who comes away with new knowledge in the best precepting interactions. Great teaching is a collaborative effort and both parties come away a little wiser, a little more seasoned, and a little better prepared to meet the next challenge.
Competing interests: None declared
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Competing Interests: None declared.
Published on: (10 November 2010)

Teaching using the whole self
Jon O. Neher, Renton, WA
It was flattering to see the microskills model of clinical teaching (aka the One Minute Preceptor) used by Dr. Jones and Dr. Reis in the Advanced Clinical Mentoring program. When this model was first developed, we wanted nothing more than a starting point, a way for a new clincial teacher to get through a teaching conversation and end with a sense that something had gone right. In these reflections, we see the master e...
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It was flattering to see the microskills model of clinical teaching (aka the One Minute Preceptor) used by Dr. Jones and Dr. Reis in the Advanced Clinical Mentoring program. When this model was first developed, we wanted nothing more than a starting point, a way for a new clincial teacher to get through a teaching conversation and end with a sense that something had gone right. In these reflections, we see the master educator working far beyond such basic models, bringing the whole self into the teaching dynamic. This is the committment that Parker Palmer celebrates in his book "The Courage to Teach." It takes courage to be vulnerable and to bring the entire self to bear on any important task.
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