Teaching medical students basic neurotransmitter pharmacology using primary research resources.
Teaching pharmacology to medical students has long been seen as a challenge, and one to which a number of innovative approaches have been taken. In this article, we describe and evaluate the use of primary research articles in teaching second-year medical students both in terms of the information le...
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American Physiological Society
2010
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| author | Halliday, A Devonshire, I Greenfield, S Dommett, E |
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| description | Teaching pharmacology to medical students has long been seen as a challenge, and one to which a number of innovative approaches have been taken. In this article, we describe and evaluate the use of primary research articles in teaching second-year medical students both in terms of the information learned and the use of the papers themselves. We designed a seminar where small groups of students worked on different neurotransmitters before contributing information to a plenary session. Student feedback suggested that when the information was largely novel, students learned considerably more. Crucially, this improvement in knowledge was seen even when they had not directly studied a particular transmitter in their work groups, suggesting a shared learning experience. Moreover, the majority of students reported that using primary research papers was easy and useful, with over half stating that they would use them in future study. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5a3a9159-4728-4f54-aaa8-532dda7fe65b2022-03-26T17:14:35ZTeaching medical students basic neurotransmitter pharmacology using primary research resources.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5a3a9159-4728-4f54-aaa8-532dda7fe65bEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Physiological Society2010Halliday, ADevonshire, IGreenfield, SDommett, ETeaching pharmacology to medical students has long been seen as a challenge, and one to which a number of innovative approaches have been taken. In this article, we describe and evaluate the use of primary research articles in teaching second-year medical students both in terms of the information learned and the use of the papers themselves. We designed a seminar where small groups of students worked on different neurotransmitters before contributing information to a plenary session. Student feedback suggested that when the information was largely novel, students learned considerably more. Crucially, this improvement in knowledge was seen even when they had not directly studied a particular transmitter in their work groups, suggesting a shared learning experience. Moreover, the majority of students reported that using primary research papers was easy and useful, with over half stating that they would use them in future study. |
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