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Abstract
The effective teaching of clinical emergency medicine to medical students requires
efficiency in the management of both student and faculty time. Presented is a course
outline that makes use of the following elements to structure and augment clinical
time in the emergency department (ED):
- 1.1. Videotape to present a 19.7-hour series of faculty-produced lectures covering a “core” emergency medicine curriculum.
- 2.2. A microcomputer to facilitate staggered scheduling of clinical time.
- 3.3. A microcomputer test generation program that permits a secretary to formulate, administer, and grade a different final exam with each rotation.
- 4.4. Computer-assisted recordkeeping for faculty evaluation of a student's clinical performance.
Once established, this program can be administered with fewer than five faculty hours
per month assisted by a part-time (25% full-time equivalent) clerical coordinator.
The total cost for the instructional program is $86.37 per student using the new technologies,
and $144.15 per student when presenting the same program using traditional teaching
techniques. The use of new technologies in student teaching will therefore result
in significant savings.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 24,
1985
Received:
October 12,
1984
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© 1985 Published by Elsevier Inc.
