Our final blog post! What a semester we have had. We’ve discussed the various roles of clinical instructors, bloom’s taxonomy relating to clinical instruction, theoretical approaches to the psychomotor domain, clinical teaching behaviors and strategies, promoting critical thinking, evaluation, remediation, clinic issues…phew! I hope this course has providing you with a starting point to engage and understand student learning in the clinical environment. Our final topic is ethics. This is not a word that is new to you, but you may have considered it more from a dental hygiene provider viewpoint rather than an instructor.

For Blog Post #7, I’d like you to discuss what ethics means to you and how it differs from law. After reading the book chapter and especially chapter 10 in HCT (PDF), what ethical situations do see yourself facing in the future as a clinical instructor? How will you protect yourself as a faculty member?