Does teaching improve professional competence?
The findings from the analysis were then used to evaluate if our hypothesis could be accepted or rejected. After the first session of reading, another six articles were dropped because the teaching roles of medical residents did not form their central objective. Most of the articles finally included in the review (n=14) were quantitative research surveys that investigated the perceptions of the stakeholders on various aspects of medical residents’ teaching and supervisory responsibilities.[3],[7],[8],[13],[14],[15],[20],[21],[22],[23],[24],[25],[26],[27] The medical disciplines that were involved included surgery, paediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, and radiology. The articles were explorative studies that varied between small[7],[22] and large[13],[28],[29] scale surveys, and whose research designs involved at least 4 different methodological approaches.[20],[24],[28],[26] The remaining four articles included one cross-sectional survey of medical students’ perceptions of
