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D G Kilpatrick

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PubMed1976

Persistence, planning, patience, and prevention: aspects of sex education in medicine.

This paper emphasizes the rapid response of American medical schools to the absence of sex education in their curricula, which has led to diversity of design, strategy, and evaluation of human sexuality courses. It further points out that most such courses are inadequate to teach physicians knowledge and skills that will be required when they leave medical school. Major areas of resistance to full implementation of comprehensive sex education programs are cited, with one method outlined to overcome institutional resistance. The authors cite case examples of the variety of sexual conflicts that become accessible in students and faculty as a result of such instruction. They suggest that groups of persons who are sexually knowledgeable and possess counseling skills in sex therapy could greatly improve sex education in the medical institution.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Comparison of the psychiatry learning system and traditional teaching of psychiatry.

Pressures of time, changing curricula, and increased enrollment in medical schools require the development of more efficient teaching methods to replace or supplement the traditional lecture format. The faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina has developed an individualized course in basic psychiatry which can replace approximately 50 hours of lectures ordinarily delivered to students during the rotation on clinical psychiatry. The individualized course, referred to as the Psychiatry Learning System (PLS), was received by half the class during the year 1973-74, and the lecture course was delivered to the other half. These two groups were compared on several learning outcomes, including attainment of theoretical knowledge about psychiatry, observational skills, interviewing ability, and problem-solving ability. Overall performance ratings by clinical supervisors were also obtained. The PLS group scored no worse on any of the measures but statistically better on half of them than did the lecture group.

Education, Medical, Undergraduate↗
PubMed1976

The effect of a spaced sex education course on medical students' sexual knowledge and attitudes.

This paper reviews the literature and emphasizes the rapid expansion of medical sex education, which has created a diversity of course content, curriculum timing and strategies. One variable of medical sex education programmes is whether they are massed or spaced courses. The authors conducted testing on 159 first year medical students who took a spaced sex education course. Significant changes in cognitive knowledge as well as attitudinal tolerance of others is reported. No changes were found in styles of thinking as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗