Graduate Teaching in Pediatrics

Learning the teaching of pediatrics.

Clinical Teaching and OSCE in Pediatrics.

Emphasis is being given to early contact by medical students with patients, and curricula are being designed to address this trend. Although teaching of clinical skills mostly depends on the traditional "apprenticeship" model, there is insufficient supervision of students while they examine the patients. This leads to the lack of acquisition of good clinical skills and some patient-student frus...

Teaching Graduate-Level Artificial Intelligence

During the past year, the entire AI curriculum of our department has been revised. A large part of this effort was aimed at developing an up-to-date, core AI course that will be required for all new computer science graduate students at UMass I. Conducting this activity in a department with such a large group of AI faculty members was more than an intellectual challenge. In particular, it was h...

Designing Teaching Practice in Post-Graduate Education

This paper explores how teachers can design post-graduate teaching practice in ways that allow participants to construct new knowledge that supports their daily work practice. To explore the design of teaching practice in post-graduate education, the authors have studied a post-graduate course at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. Qualitative data about the teaching pract...

Teaching “Theory” in Topical Graduate Seminars*

This paper discusses a method of teaching theory to graduate students in the context of graduate seminars that are constructed around classical topics—particular ancient texts or authors, specifi c historical or art-historical or archaeological questions, and so forth. This method ties the necessary theory directly to the seminar’s topic, and thereby subordinates the exposition of theory to the...