by Chris Kenrick, Palo Alto Weekly
Despite an explosion in biomedical knowledge, the method of teaching first-year medical students through lectures has changed little since the Wright brothers were tinkering at Kitty Hawk over a century ago, says Stanford University pediatric infectious disease specialist Charles Prober. Prober, who also is associate dean for medical education at the School of Medicine, aims to improve on that. By making lessons “stickier” — more memorable and comprehensible — and embracing self-paced and mastery-based approaches, he hopes to make better use of students’ time in their task of absorbing the ever-expanding medical canon.
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