Medical educators have a unique role in teaching students how to save lives and give comfort during illness. This article reports a qualitative inquiry into medical students\u2019 perspectives on the key qualities which differentiate excellent and poor clinical teachers, using a Web-based questionnaire with a purposeful sample of third- and fourth-year medical students. Thirty-seven medical students responded with 465 characteristics and supportive anecdotes. All participants\u2019 responses were analyzed through reviewing, coding, member checking, recoding and content analysis, which yielded 12 codes. Responses from 5 randomly chosen participants were recoded by two authors with an inter-rater reliability coefficient of 0.72, implying agreement. Finally, 3 larger categories emerged from the data: Content Competence, Teaching Mechanics, and Teaching Dynamics. We incorporate these codes into a diagrammatic model of a good clinical teacher, discuss the relationships and interactions between the codes and categories, and suggest further areas of research.<\/p>","DOI":"10.4018\/jhisi.2008040106","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,2,15]],"date-time":"2011-02-15T18:50:38Z","timestamp":1297795838000},"page":"69-86","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Characteristics of Good Clinical Educators from Medical Students' Perspectives"],"prefix":"10.4018","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Gary","family":"Sutkin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA"}]},{"given":"Hansel","family":"Burley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Texas Tech University, USA"}]},{"given":"Ke","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wayne State University, USA"}]},{"given":"Neetu","family":"Arora","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Texas Tech University, USA"}]}],"member":"2432","container-title":["International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics"],"original-title":[],"language":"ng","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/viewtitle.aspx?TitleId=2228","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,1]],"date-time":"2022-06-01T20:51:29Z","timestamp":1654116689000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/services.igi-global.com\/resolvedoi\/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018\/jhisi.2008040106"}},"subtitle":["A Qualitative Inquiry using a Web-Based Survey System"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2008,4]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4018\/jhisi.2008040106","relation":{},"ISSN":["1555-3396","1555-340X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1555-3396","type":"print"},{"value":"1555-340X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,1]]}}}