ETYMOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPING FUTURE PHYSICIANS’ TERMINOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

Effectiveness of microteaching as a method of developing teaching competence among in-service medical teachers

Introduction: In spite of the fact that microteaching has beenpracticed extensively in most universities, its actual efficacyhas not been studied systematically. In this study, there was anattempt to quantify the efficacy of microteaching in inducingbehavioral change in teachers. We also aimed to determine theperceived utility and ease of this process in teacher training,using the feedback rece...

Protégé as a Vehicle for Developing Medical Terminological Systems

A medical terminological system (TS) is essentially an ontology consisting of concepts, attributes and relationships pertaining to medical terms. There are many TSs around today, most of which are essentially frame-based. Various efforts have been made to get a better understanding of the requirements and the conceptual and formal structures of TSs. However, the actual implementation of a TS co...

Developing librarians as teachers: A study of their pedagogical knowledge

The widespread involvement of librarians in information literacy education has raised concerns about their development as teachers, but there is little research on their acquisition and application of pedagogical knowledge. A questionnaire was used to collect mainly quantitative data about the teaching roles, pedagogical knowledge and professional development of subject librarians in 82 UK high...

Developing physicians as catalysts for change.

Failures in care coordination are a reflection of larger systemic shortcomings in communication and in physician engagement in shared team leadership. Traditional medical care and medical education neither focus on nor inspire responses to the challenges of coordinating care across episodes and sites. The authors suggest that the absence of attention to gaps in the continuum of care has led phy...

The Innovator’s Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence