Teaching medical physics to general audiences

Teaching medical physics to general audiences.

By judiciously selecting topics and reading materials, one can teach a full semester course on medical physics appropriate for college students not majoring in the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary field offers an opportunity to teach a great deal of basic physics at the freshman level in the context of explaining modern medical technologies such as ultrasound imaging, laser surgery, and...

Teaching Students How to Analyze and Adapt to Audiences

Not long ago, one of the author’s students told him, ‘‘I won’t be able to make it to your class today. I have to study for a test in another course. Will I miss anything important?’’ The author, of course, had heard this excuse before, as many of us probably have. What made this interaction more amusing was what, by coincidence, the student was going to miss that day: a discussion on analyzing ...

Teaching psychodynamic psychiatry to students on general medical rotations.

M students’ and physicians’ training is oriented toward rapid retrieval of information and the development of those clinical skills needed to make immediate interventions. Medical students’ education in the area of psychiatry is usually limited to a sixto eight-week rotation, where they are most often exposed to a view of mental function as a simple epiphenomenon of the activity of neurotransmi...

Teaching Privacy by Design to Non-technical Audiences

As research in cyber security and privacy advances, privacy initiatives should be disseminated to the broader public. Education of this public is a key tool in conveying the seminal importance of security and privacy in our use of digital technology. This article presents a curriculum that, by targeting the nonengineering public, provides an opportunity for rapid acceptance of the innovative se...

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