Medical students teach to community

Using movies to teach professionalism to medical students

BACKGROUND Professionalism topics are usually not covered as a separate lesson within formal curriculum, but in subtler and less officially recognized educational activities, which makes them difficult to teach and assess. Interactive methods (e.g. movies) could be efficient teaching methods but are rarely studied. The aims of this study were: 1) to test the relevance and usefulness of movies i...

Using game format to teach psychopharmacology to medical students.

BACKGROUND Most psychiatric programs provide lectures on basic principles of psychopharmacology. Yet, this traditional approach has been criticized due to excessive information and passive transfer of expert knowledge. An alternative teaching method is the use of "academic games." AIMS To investigate medical students' acquisition of knowledge on psychopharmacology, and their perception of a g...

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Medical students teach Basic Life Support to non-medical students: a pilot study.

Mortality following Cardiac Arrest (CA) is highly correlated to he quality of first responders’ Basic Life Support (BLS).1 Many studes highlight the lack of knowledge and poor quality of BLS provided y both the general population and by medical students.2,3 We ecently introduced a simulation based course on BLS for our medcal students.4 In a project entitled « See one, Do one, Teach ten », e ai...

Evaluation of a tool to teach medical students direct ophthalmoscopy.

INTRODUCTION With declining exposure to the ophthalmologic examination in medical school, medical students and their instructors need a simple, effective method for teaching direct ophthalmoscopy. OBJECTIVE Evaluation of canisters as direct ophthalmoscopy teaching aids for medical students. METHODS Two ounce plastic canisters were designed to simulate an eye with 35 mm fundus photographs pl...