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The oral case presentation: toward a performance-based rhetorical model for teaching and learning.

Mei Yuit Chan¹

¹Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; cmy@upm.edu.my.

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|July 22, 2015

Summary

Medical students need better training for oral case presentations. This study proposes a performance-based model to improve teaching and assessment of this key communication skill.

Keywords:

communication skills expert presentations genre analysis intertextual analysis medical case presentation medical education oral case presentation performance-based model rhetorical analysis rhetorical model

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Area of Science:

Medical Education
Communication Skills
Rhetorical Analysis

Background:

Oral case presentations are crucial for medical student training and assessment.
Current teaching methods lack comprehensive support for this complex communication task.
Medical educators have varying expectations for effective case presentations.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the lack of a comprehensive model for oral case presentations.
To explain the rhetorical aspects of case presentations in medical education.
To propose a performance-based model for teaching and assessing this skill.

Main Methods:

Review of practitioner literature and existing research on medical case presentations.
Analysis of the rhetorical and linguistic characteristics of oral case presentations.
Argument for a performance-based model grounded in genre analysis.

Main Results:

A significant gap exists in structured models for teaching oral case presentations.
Existing methodologies for describing case presentations are largely opinion-based.
A performance-based model can systematically examine expert vs. novice communication differences.

Conclusions:

A comprehensive, performance-based model is needed for oral case presentations.
This model will aid medical educators in providing structured feedback.
Implementing such a model can enhance medical students' communication proficiency.