Table 1.

Technical assistance areas.

Communication skills	•  Teaching communication skills •  Writing learning objectives for communication skills •  Assessment strategies to assess communication skills
History taking skills	•  Teaching history taking •  Writing learning objectives for history taking •  Assessment strategies to assess history taking
Clinical skills	•  Teaching discrete clinical skills •  Writing learning objectives for clinical skills •  Assessment strategies to assess clinical skills
Professionalism	•  Introduction to professionalism •  Teaching professionalism •  Assessment strategies to assess professionalism
Affiliation with community/PHC sites	•  Examples of models to expand clinical sites •  Criteria and systems for expanding clinical sites •  Distinguish roles and responsibilities of core and non-core faculty
Faculty development	•  Integrating communication, clinical, and professionalism skills •  Integrating basic sciences with clinical teaching •  Developing teaching skills in community-based/PHC preceptors •  Patient-based bedside teaching •  Teaching clinical reasoning •  Microteaching skills •  Resident as teacher •  Direct observation and feedback