re students learning as much as they think they are? The dangers of fluent lectures

Who do they think they are?

Teaching medical students what they think they already know.

OBJECTIVES To discuss the problems encountered teaching interviewing skills to first year medical students and describe their responses to a structured workshop in interviewing skills. METHODS Focus groups and a short evaluation questionnaire filled in by 56 first year medical students before and after a workshop in interviewing skills were used. RESULTS All students evaluated their skills ...

Are family meals as good for youth as we think they are? A review of the literature on family meals as they pertain to adolescent risk prevention.

Regular family meals have been shown to reduce adolescents' engagement in various risk behaviors. In this article, we comprehensively examine the literature to review the association between family meals and eight adolescent risk outcomes: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs; aggressive and/or violent behaviors; poor school performance; sexual behavior; mental health problems; and disor...

Misconceptions--what students think they know.

How do you know that a student has a misconception? You ask a question and find that the answer you get is wrong, often in an odd or unexpected way. So, you ask a follow-up question, or you ask the student to explain the previous answer, and again you get an odd answer or explanation. Thus the questions that you have asked, whether in the classroom or in your office, are diagnostic probes, and ...

'Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder': people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive.

This research examines the role of alcohol consumption on self-perceived attractiveness. Study 1, carried out in a barroom (N= 19), showed that the more alcoholic drinks customers consumed, the more attractive they thought they were. In Study 2, 94 non-student participants in a bogus taste-test study were given either an alcoholic beverage (target BAL [blood alcohol level]= 0.10 g/100 ml) or a ...