Community Precepting

Teaching Tips
Using Questioning as a Tool for Effective Precepting

Analyze
Apply  Examine information
 Use and break into
information in a component parts
new way
 Use these verbs:
 Use these Differentiate,
verbs: Distinguish
Utilize Outline
Demonstrate Compare
Understand
 Explain ideas or Evaluate
concepts  Make
Create judgments
 Use these verbs: based on
Describe criteria
Evaluate
Summarize
Give an example  Use these
Discuss verbs:
Analyze
Explain Decide

Remember Apply
 Recall or Create
remember the  Create a new
information Understand product or point
of view
 Use these verbs: Remember
Define  Use these verbs:
List Imagine
Name Based on revised Bloom’s taxonomy. Role-play
APA adaptation of Anderson, L.W. & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.) (2001) Write
Identify
Remember Hypothesize

Tips for Using the Questioning Strategy

Use open-ended or clarifying
questions predominately
Restrict use of close ended
questions to assessing factual
or baseline knowledge
Allow time for response
Ask learners to paraphrase what
they learned
Follow a weak answer with a
clarifying question
A challenging question can be
asked in a supportive context

Supported by Physician Faculty Development in Primary Care HRSA Grant # D55HP08354

Contact Ellen Tattelman (etattelm@montefiore.org)
 Case Example

17 year-old young woman with urinary frequency and dysuria

Analyze
Apply
How would you
How would you confirm your diagnosis?
compare the different
treatment options?
How would you interpret the lab results?
What’s the patient’s
How would your approach change if this
understanding of
patient were pregnant? Male? Infant?
what’s going on?

Understand
Evaluate

?
What are the possible
diagnoses? How would you choose your
treatment?
What are some risk factors
you would look for? How would you justify your
treatment choice?

Remember
Create
How would you describe
this patient’s symptoms? Are you able to propose a
prevention strategy for this
patient?

Supported by Physician Faculty Development in Primary Care HRSA Grant # D55HP08354

Contact Ellen Tattelman (etattelm@montefiore.org)