Development of a “Stress in Medicine” Education Module: Learning from the Aviation Industry
Anne Gunderson GNP, and Dave Mayer MDThe aviation industry designed and implemented assessment and training programs to improve employee attitudes and performance in the areas of leadership, interpersonal communications, teamwork, stress management, conflict resolution, and decision-making…. Read more »
Grand Rounds as a Teaching Modality in Neuroscience for M1 Students
Laura Bruce, Ph.D., Jayne Murray, M.S. and Floyd Knoop, Ph.D.Innovations in educational technologies have driven medical education as traditional forms of instruction are revised. During the past two decades, course directors and medical educators have developed curricula that integrate… Read more »
Development of a Database to Streamline Access and Manipulation of Images in a
Benjamin P. Rosenbaum, BS1, Sanjay G. Patel, BS1, H. Wayne Lambert, Ph.D.2Medical educators benefit from Web-based, database-driven search engines, such as Googletm or PubMed, but they have failed to harness database technology to improve computer-assisted instruction (CAI) applications. At Vanderbilt University… Read more »
Cinema in the Classroom
R. Ranney Mize, Ph.D.Clinical videos illustrating deficits produced by brain disease are commonly used in medical and other health professional neuroscience courses. Although of value, they are often of low image quality, show… Read more »
Scavenger Hunts in Microscopic Anatomy
Janet D. Smith, Ph.D.The yearlong Microscopic Anatomy course at Drexel University College of Medicine includes four group activities known as scavenger hunts. A scavenger hunt is a lab exercise in which each five-person… Read more »
Quizzes are for Learning not just Evaluation
Uldis N. Streips, Ph.D.In the Medical Microbiology and Immunology course, which I direct, I have included 6 quizzes during the semester with 2 between each Block Test. To make the quizzes a more… Read more »