"What the Lecture Hall Cannot Teach": A Practitioner's Guide to Facilitation in Indian Medical Education
Nobody sat down one day and decided this is how we will teach our doctors. It was inherited. And like everything inherited, we wore it so long we forgot to question it.
Every year, medical colleges across India produce thousands of graduates who can recite drug doses, reproduce Harrison's Principles from memory, and pass examination after examination - and then freeze when a frightened mother asks them what is wrong with her child.
This book is about that gap. And about closing it.
What the Lecture Hall Cannot Teach is written for the real medical teacher - the one managing a batch of one hundred and forty students, twelve contact hours a week, examination pressure from every direction, and a genuine wish to teach better. It does not offer theoretical idealism. It offers a practical, honest, experience-grounded argument for why the content-provider model has reached its ceiling - and what to do instead.
Drawing on decades of clinical practice and hospital leadership, the author traces the chain that runs from the classroom to the consultation room to the patient - and shows, with clarity and conviction, that what we build in one room travels silently but reliably into the other.
This book will show you:
Why the lecture hall was never the heart of medical education - and what replaced itWhat facilitation actually means in the crowded, under-resourced Indian medical collegeHow to ask questions that build thinking rather than test memoryHow to use case-based learning, bedside teaching, and simulation as facilitation toolsHow to assess clinical reasoning, not just recallHow to become the teacher your students will remember - not for what you told them, but for how you made them thinkThe patient is present in every teaching decision you make. When you choose how to spend an hour with students, you are making a decision that will eventually affect the people who come to them for help.
This book begins with that recognition - and builds, practically and powerfully, from there.
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