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Expert medical teachers foster student engagement through supportive environments, personal approaches, and active learning facilitation. Adapting strategies to specific contexts is key for effective teaching and faculty development.

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Medical Education
Educational Psychology

Background:

Student engagement in active learning is crucial but challenging for medical educators.
Teachers often struggle to maintain student participation, leading to passive learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify strategies expert medical teachers use to effectively stimulate student engagement.
To inform faculty development programs for improved medical teaching.

Main Methods:

Constructivist grounded theory approach with appreciative inquiry elements.
Interviews with 11 highly-rated medical teachers.
Constant comparative analysis of transcribed interviews until theoretical saturation.

Main Results:

A grounded theory of expert teaching practice emerged.
Student engagement is an integrated process with three core components: supportive environment, personal educational approach, and active learning facilitation.

Conclusions:

Multiple strategies exist to stimulate student engagement.
A supportive environment and active learning facilitation are consistently important.
Effective engagement requires a reflective, context-sensitive approach by educators.