Thorn Interview Article

A Guide for Clinical Teachers: Deeper Learning in Clinical Learning Experience – ARTICLE

    By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. , Copyright 2015 Increasingly, clinical teaching is done by Clinical Adjunct Faculty, who may or may not have any formal education in teaching. Clinical Adjuncts may not have had much guidance about what the aims of particular clinical courses are or which students need situated coaching to address …

Learning Activities for Teachers and Nursing Students around Situating Clinical Knowledge Use in the Teaching of Science

By Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF   1.     University of Pennsylvania has implemented several strategies for upgrading the teaching of science so that it is more focused on the science most needed in today’s highly technical medical and nursing practice.  For example, their Anatomy and Physiology class has now integrated Health Assessment with a …

Team Teachers Interview with Dr. Benner

Interdisciplinary Team Teaching

COMPANION ARTICLE COMPANION VIDEO 1 COMPANION VIDEO 2 Interdisciplinary Team Teaching at UPenn: An Effective Method for Teaching Situated Thinking and Use of Knowledge. This class is titled “Integrated Anatomy, Physiology and Physical Assessment, I and II” and is taught second semester, freshman year and first semester, sophomore year. This course pairs a nurse practitioner …