Intended to help instructors of introductory psychology courses, this publication contains lectures given at the 1980 meeting of the American Psychological Association in Montreal, Canada. There are five papers. The first paper examines the literature on learning and memory in terms of a model focusing on biological and cognitive constraints on…

Methods of improving the pediatric clerkship are used to develop procedures for educating students in basic science and clinical education programs. The model of instruction first lists the instructional objectives, then defines what the learner knows prior to instruction, plans instructional procedures to supply the missing abilities and skills,…

This document reports on three years of clinical research involving the development of effective clinical intervention procedures for children with slow language development. The assessment and treatment approaches discussed in the report are based upon the developmental model of grammar described in Developmental Sentence Analysis (DSA), a…

The Problem-Oriented Medical Record (POMR) is proposed as a teaching method for podiatric students. POMR is a concise charting method that gives the student a chance to exercise diagnostic skills with the aid of academic materials. It helps assure uniform and thorough patient care and provides charts easily followed by other students, doctors, and…

Comparison of the new program (teaching in small groups at several hospitals in a continuous eight-week block) with the former program (two four-week blocks at a single central hospital) suggests that student performance in the new program is consistently at least as good as, or superior to, student performance in the traditional program. (LBH)

The rationale for having health care practitioners teach students includes the optimal education of the students and continuing education for the practitioners themselves. Some goals and objectives for practitioner-instructors are provided, and instructional techniques utilized by optometric practitioner-instructors are described. (MLW)

A collaborative study between two medical schools to evaluate the teaching of physical examination skills to medical students, assess the effect of different instructional methods, and improve teaching programs is presented. Students at the two schools were videotaped and the videotapes were sent to a third school for independent evaluation.…

Describes and evaluates the reflecting team approach with family practice residents to teach interviewing skills, systems-oriented psychosocial interventions, and patient behavioral health consultations. Questionnaire responses of 18 family practice residents participating in a longitudinal behavioral health program at the University of Arizona…

Objective: A questionnaire to examine efforts toward the teaching of empirically supported interventions (ESI) was mailed to the 165 deans and directors of Council on Social Work Education-accredited Master's in social work (MSW) programs; 66 (40%) responded. Method: Questions included program characteristics and items assessing both faculty and…

The undergraduate teaching of childhood illness in the community is described that includes a cross-section of acute childhood illness together with some contact with handicapped children in their own homes in Scotland. Although there were only four teaching sessions, the conditions approximated that of general practice. (LBH)

Educational alternatives to the lecture format in medicine should be considered. The case study is seen as one of the best teaching tools available to medical educators and is especially useful for teaching laboratory medicine. The use of case studies in a pathology department is described. (MLW)

Eighty-four third- and fourth-year medical students participated in three clerkship groups: one with no formal attention paid to interviewing skills, one using readings, and one using observations, videotaped interviewing, and readings with formal feedback. The last method caused most improvement in interviewing skills. (MSE)

The results of this study indicate that some of the basic skills used in clerkship courses can be adequately taught using the autotutorial approach in the environment of an autotutorial center. Skills such as information retrieval from charts, patient assessment, recordkeeping, and parameter- following procedures can be obtained by students prior…

A study compared results of 2 teaching methods, traditional Socratic method (22 students) and a problem-based curriculum (35 students) in a University of Kentucky medical school surgery clerkship. Results showed the problem-based method resulted in similar knowledge level but improved clinical problem-solving skills. (Author/MSE)