Schwartzstein Clip 1

Instructional Themes: Peer learning; Case teaching; setting up the simulation; working in teams; creating urgency; time management; instructor’s role in simulations

Profiled: Richard Schwartzstein, Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, teaches "Homeostasis I" to 40 students at Harvard Medical School.

Clip Length: 4 minutes, 5 seconds (1:02-5:07)

Clip Context:

• “Homeostasis 1,” a first-year prerequisite course at Harvard Medical School with 40 students enrolled.
• This course immerses first-year medical students in clinical simulations, realistic problems of practice. Students must work together to reach informed solutions to these problems. The course is taught by a team of doctors, led by Schwartzstein.
• This clip comes at the very beginning of the hour-long video as the teaching team sets up the day’s simulation.