Teaching is more than a business in medicine. Medical students, interns, residents and fellows have real needs. We all do. Address the needs and you make a friend for life and influence the future of medicine in a meaningful way. Such are the qualities of good clinical preceptors, teachers of medicine and surgery. I've had some good ones.
So what needs did he or she address? Certainty, variety, significance, connection, growth and contribution.
Learners want to know what's expected of them (certainty), experience a cross section of pathology (variety), feel they are important (significance), be a part of the team and treated as such (connection), learning (growing) and feel as if they have helped in a meaningful way (contribution).
It's hard to teach the importance of basic human needs to teachers,... individuals who are often struggling to have their own needs met.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
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