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Friday, March 12, 2010

Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry.

30 Oct 2009 Medical students often experience significant cognitive dissonance as they attempt to understand psychiatry. After the security of lab values and medical tests that characterize much of medical practice, the ambiguity of seemingly subjectively ... Read more...

Measuring motivational characteristics of courses: applying Keller's instructional materials motivation survey to a web-based course.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: The Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) purports to assess the motivational characteristics of instructional materials or courses using the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) model of motivation. The IMMS ... Read more...

Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education.

30 Oct 2009 Three distinct phenomena are currently at play in medical education: (1) the pervasive use of PowerPoint in teaching, (2) the wholesale application of competency models, and (3) the shift from paper reading to screen reading regardless of course, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Teaching'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Teaching the next generation of neurologists. Nov 2009
• Teaching video neuroimages: unilateral RIMLF lesion: pathologic eye movement torsion indicates lesion side and site. Nov 2009
• Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry. 30 Oct 2009
• Measuring motivational characteristics of courses: applying Keller's instructional materials motivation survey to a web-based course. 30 Oct 2009
• Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education. 30 Oct 2009
• Ergonomics case study: revised NIOSH lifting equation instruction issues for students. 30 Oct 2009
• Surge capacity volunteer perspectives on a field training exercise specifically designed to emphasize likely roles during a disaster response. 30 Oct 2009
• Back to the future: medical students can matter again. 30 Oct 2009
• Guidelines for bedside teaching. 30 Oct 2009
• Teaching, not testing, for scientific vision. 14 Oct 2009
• Teaching video neuroimages: excessive grinning in Wilson disease. 4 Oct 2009
• Not one more child drowns. 29 Sep 2009
• Formal swimming lessons must be defined. 29 Sep 2009
• Canadian ophthalmology residency training: an evaluation of resident satisfaction and comparison with international standards. 29 Sep 2009
• Why Johnny cannot operate. 29 Sep 2009
• The use of chicken legs for teaching wound closure skills. 26 Sep 2009
• Science education. Revising the AP biology curriculum. 23 Sep 2009
• Why medical educators may be failing at feedback. 21 Sep 2009
• Education research: assessment of neurology resident clinical competencies in the neurology clinic. 20 Sep 2009
• New student medical journal launched. 19 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Teaching'

Definition: The educational process of instructing.

Descriptor UI: D013663

Alternative terms: Teaching; Personnel, Educational; Educational Personnel; Techniques, Educational; Technics, Educational; Educational Technics; Educational Technic; Technic, Educational; Educational Techniques; Educational Technique; Technique, Educational; Training of Trainers; Trainers Training; Teaching Methods; Method, Teaching; Methods, Teaching; Teaching Method; Training Activities; Activities, Training; Training Activity; Training Techniques; Technique, Training; Techniques, Training; Training Technique; Training Technics; Technic, Training; Technics, Training; Training Technic; Academic Training; Training, Academic;

Related Mesh Headings: Faculty;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.903;

Technical Notes: teacher as the imparter of knowledge goes here, not under FACULTY which is differentiated from student or administrator: Manual 30.25