Clinical Learning Environment

Clinical Learning Environment

By Teresa Chan (@TChanMD)
Originally Published, March 19, 2020


Clinical learning environments can be challenging since they are locations where clinical care and education can clash. Here are a few recent resources that you might find interesting to review to help you think about your own teaching environments.

The Medical Education in Cases (MEdIC) series was a case-based set of faculty development modules. Here are five cases that will make you think differently about your clinical learning environments:

All cases are creative commons, so please feel free to share them print them, and use them to facilitate local discussions.


The ICE blog is an international, English-language blog with contributors from all over the world.  Here is a selection of posts that we think will resonate with you as a clinician educator.

Dr. Teresa Chan (@TChanMD) is an associate professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at McMaster University.  She is a national award-winning clinician educator, and has recently taken the role of assistant dean for McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development (@MacPFD).   She is also an avid scholar in health professions education and works with the MERIT group (@MERIT_McMaster), and conducts research and scholarship within this area.