abstract background and purpose:     method:     results:     conclusion:     key words:     journal of medical education winter and spring 2007; 11 (1,2): 27-36 ecg interpretation, emergency medicine residents, internal medicine residents our study revealed that the overall scores in ecg interpretation are low and the ecginterpretation skill in im residents was better compared to em residents....

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...

OBJECTIVE This article reviews methods used to teach psychopharmacology to psychiatry residents that utilize principles of adult learning, enlist active participation of residents, and provide faculty with skills to seek, analyze, and use new information over the course of their careers. METHODS The pros and cons of five "nonlecture" methods of teaching are reviewed: 1) journal clubs, 2) prob...