This article provides a reflexive account of the authors' experiences of the ethical challenges in conducting a higher degree by research (HDR) supervision project prompted by the ethics review process in a major Australian university. The authors also raise epistemological questions about the specific focus of the study, given the interrelations…

Disagreement about what constitutes good teaching persists because people's perceptions of education and of teaching are often bound up in their ideologies and undisclosed prejudices. Concentration on the form of the educational enterprise--on what is universal, as opposed to subjective--is urged. Implications for supervisors and for evaluation of…

Evaluation data on Basic Clinical Psychiatry, a four week required clerkship of the University of Pennsylvania, are presented. The results of the evaluation suggest that, in spite of negative attitudes, student ratings of psychiatry courses can be consistent with measures of cognitive growth and sensitive to educational methods and design.…