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T Turbiak

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PubMed1986

Comparison of a videotape instructional program with a traditional lecture series for medical student emergency medicine teaching.

An emergency medicine faculty has reported that the use of the videotape medium for presenting curricular material to medical students is both cost effective and well suited to the educational milieu of the emergency department. In order to compare the effectiveness of videotape instruction with that of a traditional lecture, groups of students received instruction in one topic by videotape and in another topic by lecture. The students' retention of material was tested by a multiple-choice examination administered ten days later. The students scored 76.1% (683 of 898 questions) on material taught by lecture and 76.2% (673 of 883 questions) on material taught by videotape (P greater than 0.7). We conclude that videotape instruction is as effective an educational tool as the traditional lecture for an emergency medicine course.

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PubMed1985

A student emergency medicine clerkship that uses new information technologies.

The effective teaching of clinical emergency medicine to medical students requires efficiency in the management of both student and faculty time. Presented is a course outline that makes use of the following elements to structure and augment clinical time in the emergency department (ED): Videotape to present a 19.7-hour series of faculty-produced lectures covering a "core" emergency medicine curriculum. A microcomputer to facilitate staggered scheduling of clinical time. A microcomputer test generation program that permits a secretary to formulate, administer, and grade a different final exam with each rotation. Computer-assisted recordkeeping for faculty evaluation of a student's clinical performance. Once established, this program can be administered with fewer than five faculty hours per month assisted by a part-time (25% full-time equivalent) clerical coordinator. The total cost for the instructional program is $86.37 per student using the new technologies, and $144.15 per student when presenting the same program using traditional teaching techniques. The use of new technologies in student teaching will therefore result in significant savings.

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PubMed1985

A cost-effective emergency medicine clerkship.

Programs in emergency medicine for medical students are expected to become increasingly organized over the next several years with the development of emergency medicine teaching faculties by medical schools. In this article, the authors describe a clerkship design with three fundamental elements--clinical instruction, classroom instruction, and evaluation--that should be included in an emergency medicine clerkship. Through the use of optimal student scheduling and new information technologies, the yearly cost per student for the classroom teaching and student evaluation sections of the clerkship is $86.65.

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