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See One, Do One, Teach One: Dissecting The Use Of Medical Education’S Signature Pedagogy In The Law School Curriculum (Forthcoming 2010), Christine N. Coughlin, Lisa A. Tucker, Sandy Patrick

Lisa T. McElroy

With the recent publication of the Best Practices in Legal Education, and the Carnegie Report on the Advancement of Teaching, law professors today have an opportunity to adopt pedagogies that have been successfully used in other professional disciplines that, like law, integrate skills and theory. In this article, we focus specifically on the “see one, do one, teach one” approach used in medical education because medical students and law students develop early professional reasoning skills in parallel ways.This article dissects medical education’s signature pedagogy by focusing on the use of simulation and samples, active learning exercises, and peer teaching opportunities …