AUPN Leadership Minute Episode 3: Teaching Millennial Medical Students

WATCH TIME: 4 minutes

AUPN's Leadership Minute is a brief, highly focused summary of practical advice for Chairs, Program Directors and other leaders in academic neurology, available as both mini-podcasts and in short form videos.

The goal of this program is to provide relevant and useful information in a modicum of time, designed to fit seamlessly into our very busy schedules.

Teaching Millennial Medical Students

What should medical educators know?

• Crave active engagement in learning.
• At ease with multimedia learning.
• Value choice and flexibility in learning.
• Prefer structured environments for learning.
• More open to feedback but prefer/expect continuous feedback.
• Accepting diversity and being interested in fairness.
• A larger gap between the expectation of achievement and the effort needed to achieve it.

How to effectively teach millennials?

• Technology should enhance learning and not replace it.
• Flipped classroom with pre-work before sessions.
• Recorded video or audio lectures (“podcast” style content).
• Simulation-based learning, game-based learning, etc.
• Add active content to your otherwise traditional lecture session.
• Set specific goals and provide an itemized list of tasks to be completed.
• Tell them who you are as a teacher.

Click here to access the full PowerPoint presentation for the episode.