Lectures and Large Groups

Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-150

  Long, Andrew ^a,b   Lock, Bridget ^c  

^a London Deanery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c Princess Royal University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building the community delivering content, not the only purpose of a lecture; Lectures and large groups; Lectures, continuing methods of knowledge transmission in undergraduate and postgraduate education; Memory, learning and performance; New entrants to community tradition and knowledge of profession for its continuity; Overhead projector (OHP), medium initially threatening chalkboard as premier teaching medium; PowerPoint coming with colourful backgrounds, artistic fonts and highly sophisticated 'build' and 'transition' effects; Powerpoint presentation design; Questioning, simplest of interactive lecturing techniques; Style of lecturing experience, level of confidence and comfort of lecturer and type of presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871448072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320282.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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