Clinical Teaching Scripts for Internal Medicine: Chalk Talks

This book is a valuable resource for medical educators in the field of internal medicine, offering teaching scripts and guidance on how to create personalized teaching scripts. With the increasing demands on attending internists to educate the next generation of physicians, formal teaching time has become scarce. This is due to the mounting clinical workload, documentation requirements, duty hour limitations, and other time constraints that physicians face.

Today's medical trainees expect teaching sessions that are concise, evidence-based, and seamlessly integrated into their clinical practice. To meet these expectations and time limitations, academic internists must be equipped to efficiently teach essential diagnostic and management concepts.

A teaching script is a systematic plan that aids in effective teaching by addressing learners' misconceptions, emphasizing key points, providing evidence-based support, engaging strategies, and offering a framework for teaching that can be refined over time. This book covers various subfields within internal medicine, such as cardiology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, as well as undifferentiated symptom-based presentations like fatigue, fever, and unintentional weight loss.

The teaching scripts provided are designed for commonly encountered clinical scenarios and are authored by experienced academic internists. Readers have the flexibility to implement the scripts as is or adapt them to suit their teaching needs. Each script is structured to be delivered in 10-15 minutes, but can be easily adjusted for longer or shorter presentations.

"Teaching Scripts in Internal Medicine" serves as a valuable tool for internal medicine attending physicians, trainees, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and anyone involved in teaching or learning internal medicine.

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