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It Is Never Too Early to Start: Educating Health Science Students to Become Future Educators

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Teachers lead, learn, and live as they walk through the journey of education, experiencing humanity in and outside their classrooms. No task is small when it comes to teaching; it is a craftsmanship that takes years to develop, and never too early to get started. In this commentary, the authors extract thoughtful viewpoints from years of teaching experience regarding how to inspire and engage more students to become educators. After all, nothing is more exciting and rewarding for a teacher than to make more and better teachers.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Given B315, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Bei Zhang

  2. Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neurology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, 29209, USA

    Joanna R. Appel

  3. Medical Education Department, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, PA, 18509, USA

    Gabi N. Waite & David B. Averill

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Zhang, B., Appel, J.R., Waite, G.N. et al. It Is Never Too Early to Start: Educating Health Science Students to Become Future Educators. Med.Sci.Educ. 33, 1547–1552 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-023-01900-1

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