Making the Class Hour Effective

Flipped Class - Making that One Hour Effective in a Resource Constrained Setting.

Flipped-class teaching has a great potential to replace traditional lectures in medical education. This study was designed to explore attitude of undergraduate medical students from Pakistan towards flipped-class. Five flipped classes were conducted in third year MBBS by a single teacher for a class of 100 students. Quantitative data was collected through a survey questionnaire to assess studen...

Effective Screening for Tuberculosis: The Need of the Hour

Lai et al. concluded that Ultra Sonic-guided synovial SuperCore biopsy instrument is a fruitful method to conduct synovial research [1]. They discussed the advantages of simple, micro invasiveness that correlates well with a relatively high rate of success. They further continued that the complications due to biopsy methodologies are rare. Authors were optimistic about future refinements of thi...

Making high order methods effective

Making in-class skills training more effective: The scope for interactive videos to complement the delivery of practical pedestrian training

Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the United Kingdom by local authorities with the intention of improving road safety. This training is often supplemented by in-class paper based worksheet activities which are seen to be less effective than practical training in that they focus on knowledge acqui...

Making training more cognitively effective: Making videos interactive

The cost of health and safety failures to UK industry is currently estimated at up to £6.5 billion per annum with the construction sector suffering unacceptably high levels of work related incidents. Better health and safety education across all skill levels in the industry is seen as an integral part of any solution. Traditional lecture-based courses often fail to re-create the dynamic realiti...