Background In the Next Accreditation System, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education outlines milestones for medical knowledge and requires regular didactic sessions in residency training. There are many challenges to facilitating active learning in resident conferences, and we need to better understand resident learning preferences and faculty perspectives on facilitating acti...

Introducing RCTM (Research-Centered Teaching Method) by the author showed the method provokes enthusiasm and anxiety, correlated with cognition: Cognition = (0.27) enthusiasm– (0.15) not interested + (0.08) anxiety. “The broaden-and-build theory” (Fredrickson, 2001) posits that positive emotions are useful in several ways. By linking this theory and emotional intelligence theory, it becomes app...

Many situations arise in which an interested party’s utility is dependent on the actions of an agent; e.g., a teacher is interested in a student learning effectively and a firm is interested in a consumer’s behavior. We consider an environment in which the interested party can provide incentives to affect the agent’s actions but cannot otherwise enforce actions. In value-based policy teaching, ...

THIS LETTER is intended to contribute to the discussion of active versus passive learning in physiology. Here are some thoughts for consideration: are we, as teachers, making a difference in the learning process? How do we ensure that we emphasize the acquisition of knowledge rather than short-term memorization? Considering the pertinent discussion regarding the quality of learning in physiolog...

The vertiginous transformations of the contemporary societies have been raising questions concerning aspects of professional education. Such questions have been raised in a more and more incisive way. This debate gains a new shape when applied to health work, where theory and practice cannot be dissociated, and where the development of an integral vision of the human being and the amplification...