The document outlines 3 essential strategies for teaching health professionals: 1) Motivation - motivating learners to become health professionals by realizing their potential. 2) Skills on how to study - developing problem-based and self-directed learning skills. 3) Framework of knowledge - providing learners a foundational framework of knowledge to learn and practice effectively throughout their careers.

1. Strategies in
Teaching Health Professionals
Reynaldo O. Joson, MD, MHPEd
2001

2. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Over the years,
I have realized
3 essential strategies
in
teaching health professionals.

3. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
MOTIVATION
SKILLS ON HOW TO STUDY
FRAMEWORK OF KNOWLEDGE

4. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
MOTIVATION
Once I realize the potential of the
learner to be a health professional,
I motivate him/her to become what
he/she wants to be.

5. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Skills in How to Study
Then, I try to help him/her
develop
the skills to study.
Problem-based learning skills
Self-directed learning skills

6. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Skills in How to Study
PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING
- Learning acquired in the process of
solving problems
- Learning in the functional or clinical
context

7. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Skills in How to Study
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
Not simply being STUDIOUS!
Must have:
1. Awareness of competences
required of profession.
2. Self-assessment of needs
3. Formulation of study plan
4. Implementation of plan
5. Evaluation

8. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Skills in How to Study
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
RATIONALE
1. In terms of knowledge-content,
impossible for teacher to teach everything;
impossible for student to learn everything.
Note: definition of learning
- change in behavior or disposition
persisting over a long period of time
2. Learning spans from the cradle to the grave.

9. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Framework of Knowledge
Then, I provide him/her
with a framework of knowledge
(with mastery)
to learn whatever is necessary
to practice effectively
throughout life.

10. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Framework of Knowledge
A FRAMEWORK OF KNOWLEDGE THAT
- can facilitate study
- can be used for any kind of
problem-solving and decision-making
- serves as a foundation which
should be developed and
mastered during the training period

11. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
Framework of Knowledge
A FRAMEWORK OF KNOWLEDGE THAT
- can be used to learn whatever is
necessary to practice effectively
throughout life!

12. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
MOTIVATION
SKILLS ON HOW TO STUDY
FRAMEWORK OF KNOWLEDGE

13. Strategies in Teaching Health Professionals
MOTIVATION
SKILLS ON HOW TO STUDY
FRAMEWORK OF KNOWLEDGE
The most efficient strategies!