Background: Simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. Aim: To expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) management; to assess which method was more effective. Methods: Present prospective study was conducted in Obstetrics Gynecology department of rural tertiary center of Northern India.  Twenty postgraduates wer...

Many studies have emphasized the incorporation of active learning into classrooms to reinforce didactic lectures for physiology courses. This work aimed to determine if presenting classic papers during didactic lectures improves the learning of physiology among undergraduate students. Twenty-two students of health information technology were randomly divided into the following two groups: 1) di...

background: simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. aim: to expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (pph) management; to assess which method was more effective. methods: present prospective study was conducted in obstetrics gynecology department of rural tertiary center of northern india.  twenty postgraduates wer...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

BACKGROUND Case-oriented small group discussions (COSGDs) can help students to correlate and integrate the basic science of dental materials into clinical application. We used COSGDs along with didactic lectures in dental material curriculum and hypothesized that case-oriented group discussions would be more effective than traditional lecture alone in terms of performance of students, student p...

Introduction: Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)is a way of evaluating procedural skills through observation inthe workplace. The purpose of this study was to assess the role ofDOPS in teaching and assessment of postgraduate students and toknow the effect of repeated DOPS on improvement of the skillsand confidence of the students.Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the ...

PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING often comprises of a large percentage of didactic lectures. A 1-h didactic lecture is often much longer than the average attention span of most students (2). It is preferable to use different methods to decrease the possible monotony of the didactic lecture (1). This is even more important when the topic being discussed has a greater number of facts that require memorizing. ...

Objective: To determine the effect of an audience response system (ARS) on knowledge retention of dental students and to gauge student perceptions of using the ARS. Design: Randomised control study. Setting: School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. Participants: Seventy four second-year dental students were stratified by gender and randomised anonymously to one of two groups. Methods: One group...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of an audience response system (ARS) on knowledge retention of dental students and to gauge student perceptions of using the ARS. DESIGN Randomised control study. SETTING School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. PARTICIPANTS Seventy four second-year dental students were stratified by gender and randomised anonymously to one of two groups. METHODS One gr...

The purpose of our Quality Improvement (QI) project was to evaluate the effectiveness of radiology-led didactics on efficiency and ordering practices in the emergency department. Residents of the emergency medicine (EM) program at Downstate Medical Center/Kings County Hospital (postgraduate years 1 4) participated in a didactic lecture series during the first two months of the 2013 academic yea...