abstract：:Neuroanatomical laboratory material was presented to first-year medical students in a series of six self-instructional stations. Each station was designed to emphasize one major objective and to be completed without reference to any other station. Upon completion of a station the students filled out a response questio...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fisher LJ,Davis WK,Hitch EJ,Barr PA

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postal questionnaire was distributed to all students who had discontinued, for any reason, their studies at Aberdeen Medical School. Opinions were sought about their experiences while there, as well as their reactions to the discontinuation therefrom. Claiming that learning to cope with stress was an essential aspe...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Alexander DA,Haldane JD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most people who attend professional meetings would appreciate the use by speakers of more illustrative material with their lectures. This may be presented on a writing surface such as a black- or whiteboard, as projected pictures or by sound recordings. Suitable equipment is available in most halls and suggestions are...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Essex-Lopresti M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the increased need to train well-rounded general practitioners within a limited time schedule, the teaching staff developed a self-instructional videotape programme devoted to suicide assessment. This tape, if successful, was to serve as a pilot for a full series of 18 tapes devoted to the assessment an...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Golden K,Furst E,Sundermann R,Delk J,McGill S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major functions of examinations are noted and a scheme of multiple choice testing is outlined which distinguishes between the certification function and the grading function of examinations. This scheme has been in operation since January 1976 in the Department of Anatomy, University of Cape Town, and preliminary ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fredman M

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to examine similarities and differences between graduating medical students who do and do not match through the National Internship and Resident Matching Programme (NIRMP). Data from graduates of 3- and 4-year undergraduate curricula were examined separately. A two way analysis of variance...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Garrard J

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings of a survey of 3262 women doctors registered between 1945 and 1974 are reported. The results are based on 2433 returned questionnaires (75% response). The survey confirmed that the special forms of assistance provided to enable women doctors to continue training and to work after graduation are inadequate...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Beaumont B

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the effectiveness of videotapes in teaching mental state examination, two groups of medical students, one who had received videotape teaching and one not exposed to videotapes, are compared in their ability to observe accurately the mental state during a live interview. Accuracy of observation was a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sturgeon DA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the literature on clinical teaching indicates that medical schools emphasize didactic teaching of facts. Interpersonal skills, problem solving skills and cultivation of attitudes are neglected. However, the literature also described the skills of 'good' clinical teachers, and enumerates them. Programmes at...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yonke AM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a method of teaching communication skills to pre-clinical medical students in the setting of general practice. By focusing on the nature of the patient's problem this teaching tries to place interviewing and diagnostic procedures in their proper context in the doctor-patient relationship. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Armstrong D,Hicks BH,Higgins PM,Weinman JA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musculoskeletal disease in the community is common, and much of it responds to early diagnosis and preventive care. At the same time, modern orthopaedics, like so many specialist subjects, has increased significantly in depth and detail pari passu with its advances. It therefore becomes all the more important in desig...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dickson RA,Houghton GR,Duthie RB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The educational programme reported was an experiment in the vocational training scheme of the department of General Practice, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Holland, and is now part of the course. The programme focused on the training in team function (co-operation) given to trainee GPs and social workers. It became c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schenk F

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of the development of professional attitudes in medical students, a modified version of the Medical Attitudes Inventory (Harris, 1974) was administered to 141 male and female first year medical students in Lagos, Nigeria. The results show that the students have well-defined attitudes on certain issues and a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Jegede RO

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-registration house officers who answered enquiries in 1973 and 1974 about career preferences were written to again in 1976. This yielded 205 comparisons, in which 134 (65.5%) doctors retained their original first choice of career, thirty-five (17%) opted for their previous second or third choice and thirty-six (17...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Parkhouse J,Howard M

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An account is given of the introduction of MCQ in an Indian Medical institution in 1974/75. Preliminary results suggest that the reliability coefficient of MCQs rises with their difficulty, and that Pearson-type coefficient indicates a higher degree of correlation with essay marks than do Spearman coefficients. A 'stu...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Gandhi IS,Ghosh MN

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years student ratings have been used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of various courses and the teaching abilities of the instructors involved. Investigators have either supported or attacked the validity of this assessment procedure on the basis of the direction and degree of the relationship found be...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mendelson MA,Canaday SD,Hardin JH

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrent failure to adequately conceptualize the medical meaning of 'diease' is explained as a function of the way this is taught in the curriculum. It is not transmitted within the formal curriculum but within the internal structural relationships of the medical course. The limits of this particular definition e...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Armstrong D

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasons for choosing dentistry as a profession were analysed among first-year dental students at the University of Toronto. The motivations of various sub-groups were also examined. It was found that an extrinsic motivation, financial rewards, was the most widespread, although the other widely chosen motivations refer...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cohen R,Coburn D

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The undergraduate teaching of childhood illness in the community is described. This teaching includes a cross-section of acute childhood illness together with some contact with handicapped children in their own homes. Although there were only four teaching sessions, the frequency of conditions studied approximated to ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Murray TS,Barber JH,Hannay DR,Hutchison JH

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 119 patients with diabetes, student nurses, social workers, dietitians and medical students a pretest was carried out with multiple-choice questions on the subject of diabetes diet. The group was then exposed to programmed diet instruction with a teaching machine. There was a significant learning effect as measured...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Teuscher A,Heidecker B

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to provide an epidemiological presence when teaching clinical medicine to undergraduate medical students in order to supply the underlying facts about disease. A series of pictorial or tabular presentations which together make up a 'master set' of Data Boards has been designed to give the medical stude...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Garraway WM,French EB,Scrimgeour JB,Pizer JE,Petrie H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undergraduate medical education in Britain has been in a state of change since before the introduction of the National Health Service. Since then the changes in the General Medical Councils's recommendations concerning the medical curriculum (1947, 1957, 1967) have accompanied attention to curricular content, and the ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Donnan SP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In September 1974 candidates who had taken a computerized patient managment problem examination (CPMP), as part of the certification process in paediatrics required by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, completed a questionnaire designed to elicit their reactions to CPMPs. The results indicated th...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fincham SM,Grace M,Taylor WC,Skakun EN,Davis FC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of one region to the Department of Health and Social Security recommendations on re-employment of women doctors contained in H.M. 69(6) is described. In many specialities there has been an encouraging return of married women doctors to medical practice within the hospital service. In the field of psychiat...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Bluglass K,Dunn TL,Gaston FW

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The academic performance of 104 fourth-year medical students was assessed in relation to their sleep habits reported in a questionary and their scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Poorer academic performance was related significantly to later times of waking up in the morning, particularly at we...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Johns MW,Dudley HA,Masterton JP

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00