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The Medical Education Journal Club meets to learn and discuss recently published articles relating to medical education.

Meeting are monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 12:00 p.m., in room 260 White Hall.

(Bring your own lunch!)


Registration and Questions:

Dr. Borges

Nicole Borges, Ph.D.
Director of Medical Education Research
290 White Hall

2008 Calendar

Date

Article

January 9

The Development of an Electronic Educational Portfolio: An Outline for Medical Education Professionals

Kadriye Lewis and Raymond Baker

February 13

No Meeting

 

March 12

Test-taking Behaviors on a Multiple-Choice Exam are Associated with Performance on the Exam and with Learning Style (PDF file)

John McNulty, Beth Sonntag and James Sinacore

April 9

Student Project Cases: A Learner-Centred Team Activity Broadly Integrated across the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum

Janet Olwyn Macaulay and Phillip Nagley

May 14

Learning In Lectures: Do ‘Interactive Windows’ Help?

Mark Huxham

June 11

Is There Hardening of the Heart During Medical School?

(Please select "Table of Contents" for Volume 83(3) March 2008, then select article #6)

Bruce Newton, Laurie Barber, James Clardy, Elton Cleveland, and Patricia O'Sullivan

July 9

No Meeting

August 13

Leaving the "Empty Glass" of Problem-Based Learning Behind: New Assumptions and a Revised Model for Case Study in Preclinical Medical Education

(Please select "Table of Contents" for Volume 82(5) May 2007, then select article #10)

Paul Shanley

September 10

No Meeting

October 8

Humanism or Professionalism? The White Coat Ceremony and Medical Education

(Please select "Table of Contents" for Volume 83(8) August 2008, then select article #5)

Judah L. Goldberg

On Outcomes and Humility

(Please select "Table of Contents" for Volume 83(7) July 2008, then select article #2)

Delese Wear

November 12

Back to the Basic Sciences: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Senior Medical Students How Best to Integrate Basic Science and Clinical Medicine

(Please select "Table of Contents" for Volume 83(7) July 2008, then select article #12)

Abby Spencer, Teresa Brosenitsch, Arthur Levine, and Steven Kanter

December 10

Clickers: the Use of Audience Response Questions to
Enliven Lectures and Stimulate Teamwork
(PDF file)

Frazier Stevenson

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Questions and Suggestions

You can email your questions and suggestions to BSOM_FacDev@wright.edu or call
(937) 775-3392