Teaching on the run tips: doctors as teachers

Lake, Fiona R

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05997.x

Topics

medical education

Setting

Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA.

Correspondence:

Acknowledgements:

I would like to thank Dr G Ryan and the teachers and participants in Teaching on the Run courses for valuable input and the Medical Training Review Panel, Department of Health and Ageing, for funding support.

Competing interests:

None identified.

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