BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many schools rely upon community preceptors for office-based education of medical students. These preceptors struggle to balance clinical care with the learning needs of students. We aim to gain a deeper understanding of the teaching rewards and challenges of current community preceptors. METHODS Five schools' family medicine clerkship directors conducted in-depth in...

The eLogbook is a collaborative Web-based environment deployed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It consists of an activity-oriented space where a community of educators, teaching assistants and students can form groups, conduct activities and perform several actions over stored and shared assets. Moreover, the eLogbook offers awareness services in order to sustain co...

OBJECTIVES Our study explored community preceptors' perceptions of their teaching role, to better understand effective ambulatory and community-based teaching. METHODS Bandura's social cognitive theory and Schön's notion of reflective practice guided conceptual development of an interview exploring preceptors' views of their role, teaching goals, teaching techniques, student assessment practi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the students' perspective about role-plays conducted as a teaching methodology in community medicine. STUDY DESIGN A quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Community Medicine at Fatima Memorial College of Medicine and Dentistry from July to November 2010. METHODOLOGY A probability technique of simple random sampling was used to collect 63 s...

The use of technology can be seen as an innovative challenge to restructure the teaching-learning process and integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in independent, collaborative and interactive work. The main purposes of this study are to understand users’ needs and to identify their profiles, in order to empower the quality of online teaching-learning process. Identifying...

At present, Chinese teaching has great defects in cultivating students' quality. This paper analyzes the disadvantages of exam-oriented education cultivation quality, puts forward implementation strategies on quality combination with requirements society for high-quality talents, and proposes specific teachers. is one research results General Teaching Team Construction (XM-03-S42) Hubei Medicin...