The quality of interchange between the doctors who teach and the doctors who learn is crucial. We recognise that 'bad teaching makes dangerous doctors'. An important development in the last decade has been the provision of a programme of teacher education for medicine, which has found wide-scale acceptance in the region. Values that all of the areas in our programme hold in common are:
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A values-based, ethically-bound approach to education
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A focus on the real-life experience of day to day teaching in ordinary clinical settings
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The development of practitioners within their own practice