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Principles of Medical Education
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Principles of Medical Education
Third Edition
Tejinder Singh MD DNB MAMS FIMSA FIAP MA (Distance Education), PG Dip (Higher Education) Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics and Vice-Principal (UG) Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India Director, CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute Chairman, IAP Education Center Piyush Gupta MD MAMS FIAP Professor of Pediatrics University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Editor-in-Chief, Indian Pediatrics Visiting Professor, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal Secretary, IAP Education Center Daljit Singh MD DCH MAMS FIMSA FIAP Diploma in Management (AIMA) Certified Evaluation and Examinations (AIU) Principal and Professor of Pediatrics Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India
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First Edition: 1997, Indian Academy of Pediatric Education Center
Second Edition: 2000, Indian Academy of Pediatric Education Center
Third Edition: 2009
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Dedicated to
All Children of the World
5Preface to the Third Edition
It is a pleasure to write a preface for the third edition of Principles of Medical Education. The previous two editions have been very well received and have earned great reviews in national and international journals. We do hope, this edition will also maintain the support enjoyed by the earlier editions.
While the basic format of the book has been retained, a number of new tools, especially those dealing with assessment of practical skills have been added. The emphasis, as earlier has been on the utility of these tools.
We hope that medical teachers of not only Pediatrics but all disciplines will find this book useful.
Tejinder Singh
Piyush Gupta
Daljit Singh
6Preface to the First Edition
The persistent efforts of Pediatricians have finally borne fruits to get the status of a separate subject to Pediatrics. This has however, brought added responsibilities for teachers of Pediatrics–that is to ensure that medical graduates are well versed in the care of children.
The quality of end-products of any system of education depends a lot on skills and orientation of the teachers. With this perspective, IAP Education Center has taken the responsibility of orienting teachers of Pediatrics to educational technology and pedagogy. This book is a humble attempt to fulfill that mandate.
Written in the format of a self-instructional manual, this book is the outcome of authors’ experience of conducting educational workshops. Many of the examples given in the book have been generated out of these workshops and we do not claim any proprietary over them.
We do hope that this book will make an enjoyable reading and enable teachers to apply many of the educational principles in their day-to-day teaching. Better health care available to children through doctors better trained in this task will be our ultimate reward.
It may also be pointed out that although the book gives examples from the subject of Pediatrics only, it will be equally useful for teachers of other subjects also.
We would welcome suggestions and comments to improve the quality of this book.
Authors
7Acknowledgements
We thank Editor-in-Chief, Indian Pediatrics for allowing to reproduce freely from their following publications:
  1. Gupta P, Kumhar G, Shah D. Alternative Learning Strategies. Indian Pediatrics 2003; 40: 731–41.
  2. Gupta P, Guglani L, Shah D. Exploring the Power of Power Point. Indian Pediatrics 2002; 39: 539–48.
  3. Guglani L, Gupta P. Effective PubMed Search. Indian Pediatrics 2001; 38: 621–30.
8Darkness to Light
O Lord, please protect us both, the teacher and the taught. May our learning be lustrous and revealing. Bestow strength on us so that we may work with mutual reverence and communion. May our learning illumine our minds and may we attain the glory of wisdom. May there be no hostilities between us.
Enlightened teacher is the cultural and educational reservoir that transmits an elevated and competent posterity. He should thus, preserve and propagate the fundamental beliefs, weed out the corruptness and accept change with an innovational versatility. After all, his image initiates and orients the followers.