INTRODUCTIONLearning medicine is not a lonely journey and is no longer a passive act. Doctors at both junior and senior levels participate in this complex process, thereby facilitating learning and consolidating and updating knowledge daily. Santos et al. 1 described facilitators as doctors who are more experienced and who thus help in the professional development of undergraduates, medical residents and their peers. These authors referred to the work of Vygotsky, 2 for whom "the learning process comes from outside sources and is conceived through individual interactions with the world". Furthermore, they postulated that the role of facilitators (preceptors) is to enable some situations in which apprentices' knowledge assimilation and production becomes transformed. The preceptor's main role is therefore to facilitate the acquisition of theory and skills by stimulating his/her pupils to make their own discoveries.Residency is characterized by in-service learning, i.e. training during practice within a scenario in which residents may become role models, in accordance with statements based on educational strategies for teaching and learning. Therefore, it is crucial to balance teaching, learning and healthcare assistance.The most remarkable characteristic of medical residency is its in-service training, in which teaching is integrated with practice scenarios, so as to build a model for physicians' ideological, ethical and professional identity. The professional competence that is expected at the end of a medical residency program needs to go beyond technical knowledge. It also encompasses skills and attitudes that show effective team capabilities, leadership, communication skills, empathy, self-control and metacognition. 3 Sternszus et al. 4 investigated the importance of resident role models in the education and career choices of medical students, in a cross-sectional survey-based study. Their study was the first to illustrate that resident role models are perceived by medical I MD. Doctoral Student, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia (MG), Brazil. orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-0619 II MD. Professional Master's Student, Centro
ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: There is extensive evidence, mainly from the United States and Canada, that points towards the need to train medical residents in teaching skills. Much of the "informal curriculum", including professional values, is taught by residents when consultants are not around. Furthermore, data from the 1960s show the importance of acquiring these skills, not only for residents but also for all doctors. Teaching moments can be identified in simple daily situations, like discussing a clinical situation with patients and their families, planning patients' care with the healthcare team or teaching peers and medical students. The aim here was to examine the significance of resident teaching courses and estimate the effectiveness of these courses and the state of the art in Brazil.
METHODS:We conducted a review of the literature, using the MEDLINE, PubMed, SciELO and LILAC...