A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designers
As students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the student authors were given the opportunity to develop their own creative projects which would be used to teach future medical students. They chose their own topics, planned and researched their projects, and then implemented the project...
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| author | Paul F. Wimmers Jonathan J. Wisco Shaleen Metten Timothy Canan Molly Quinn Sean H. Novak Sebastian Uijtdehaage |
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| description | As students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the student authors were given the opportunity to develop their own creative projects which would be used to teach future medical students. They chose their own topics, planned and researched their projects, and then implemented the projects in interactive digital Adobe Flash files. In the first project they created interactive case-based radiology teaching files. In the second project they integrated photographic images into the existing illustrative anatomy files. Students in subsequent years have learned from these files on computers both at home and in the school's anatomy lab. The experience of creating the files served as an opportunity for hands-on learning for the student authors, both of the material and of the practice of teaching. In this paper they describe why they undertook these projects, what exactly they did, and the impact their creation had on them. The projects demonstrate that student-driven educational materials are both possible and beneficial. Furthermore, their experience has allowed them to conclude that faculty at other medical schools should consider providing students with opportunities to develop their own creative projects that contribute to the curriculum. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00f93ed9e0a949df91f3e15c9230b9b82022-12-21T18:41:28ZengTaylor & Francis GroupMedical Education Online1087-29812011-07-011601410.3402/meo.v16i0.7252A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designersPaul F. WimmersJonathan J. WiscoShaleen MettenTimothy CananMolly QuinnSean H. NovakSebastian UijtdehaageAs students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the student authors were given the opportunity to develop their own creative projects which would be used to teach future medical students. They chose their own topics, planned and researched their projects, and then implemented the projects in interactive digital Adobe Flash files. In the first project they created interactive case-based radiology teaching files. In the second project they integrated photographic images into the existing illustrative anatomy files. Students in subsequent years have learned from these files on computers both at home and in the school's anatomy lab. The experience of creating the files served as an opportunity for hands-on learning for the student authors, both of the material and of the practice of teaching. In this paper they describe why they undertook these projects, what exactly they did, and the impact their creation had on them. The projects demonstrate that student-driven educational materials are both possible and beneficial. Furthermore, their experience has allowed them to conclude that faculty at other medical schools should consider providing students with opportunities to develop their own creative projects that contribute to the curriculum.http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/view/7252/pdf_204creative projectteachinganatomyradiologymedical school curriculum |
| spellingShingle | Paul F. Wimmers Jonathan J. Wisco Shaleen Metten Timothy Canan Molly Quinn Sean H. Novak Sebastian Uijtdehaage A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designers Medical Education Online creative project teaching anatomy radiology medical school curriculum |
| title | A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designers |
| title_full | A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designers |
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| title_short | A New Approach to Learning How to Teach: medical students as instructional designers |
| title_sort | new approach to learning how to teach medical students as instructional designers |
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