PURPOSE To compare the effectiveness of an educational board game with interactive didactic instruction for teaching optometry students elements of the core optometric curriculum. METHODS Forty-two optometry students were divided into two GPA-matched groups and assigned to either 12 hours of game play (game group) or 12 hours of interactive didactic instruction (lecture group). The same mater...

Miller CJ, McNear J, Metz MJ. A comparison of traditional and engaging lecture methods in a large, professional-level course. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 347–355, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00050.2013.—In engaging lectures, also referred to as broken or interactive lectures, students are given short periods of lecture followed by “breaks” that can consist of 1-min papers, problem sets, brainstorming sess...

BACKGROUND Overdose education and naloxone training was recently implemented into the required curriculum of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island. The objective of this study was to compare the retention of knowledge between student pharmacists who received a didactic lecture only and student pharmacists who received the same lecture plus a skills-based objective structured...

1 Introduction Between the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL) a teleteaching experiment has been established in order to gain practical and didactic experiences in three main areas of application-oriented communication and didactic research: • Network support for dialog-oriented, isochronous services; • Technical equipment to be utilized, such as advance...

The University of Kentucky medical curriculum was revised in 1994 to implement a more interactive approach. The Endocrine Physiology section of the new physiology course, Human Function, was modified from its former daily lecture and weekly laboratory format to eight daily 3 1/2-h sessions. Each session is composed of four components: a didactic lecture, a whole class discussion session, a quiz...

Although the structure and composition of graduate medical education (GME) is evolving with medical and technological advances, didactic lecture format instruction remains a critical component in many training environments internationally. In the US, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) publishes program requirements outlining educational guidelines for 133 specialti...

The conventional lecture scenario implicates fundamental didactic problems due to a lack of interactivity and opportunity for feedback. In an interactive lecture, each student is equipped with a lightweight, mobile device that can be used to wirelessly interact with the lecturer during the lesson. This creates an additional channel of communication. In this paper, we present our experiences wit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Providing effective multisite didactic teaching in residency programs remains a challenge. There is limited evidence regarding the educational equivalency of the traditional and distance learning methods for delivery of didactics. We introduced a synchronous two-way audio and video Internet-transmitted distance learning methodology in two sites. The study assessed both...

INTRODUCTION The ability to mentally rotate an object in 3 dimensions has been shown with an individual's score on the Vandenberg and Kuse Mental Rotations Test. The was to determine whether this Mental Rotations Test could be used to predict performance complex surgical skill - the tying of a 1-handed surgical reef knot. In addition, we learning a spatially complex surgical skill could be achi...