Teaching Methods: This was a set of eight small group sessions with eleven students, where each session was comprised of four clinical cases.
Description: The sessions were part of a larger curriculum including lectures on pharmacology, pathophysiology and pathology. These were case-based sessions with 11 students and four cases per session. The cases were used to reinforce basic pulmonary physiology with clinical correlation.
Reflections: This small group was my first experience formally teaching another educator’s materials. It was an exercise in taking the learning objectives and prescribed teaching topics and making them work within my own style as an educator as well as for the group. Additionally, we were challenged by school closures due to inclement weather, so half of our small groups were held via Zoom (digital meeting space). This posed a particular challenge of modifying content that was intended for pair-share and white-board based discussions to a new mode.
I was again able co-teach the small group for the 2020 session. This time all sessions were fortunately able to be completed in person. I worked on connecting content between sessions in order to continually reinforce key concepts. A personal goal is to continue working on being more direct when a learner gets something wrong, a skill I hope to improve upon with every teaching activity I participate in.