Learning and teaching in family medicine
Associate Professor L Piterman
First semester
The following topics/activities comprise this subject: what is learning?; how people learn?; instructional design; educational technology; general practitioners as learners and educators; weekend teaching skills workshop; educational research and its application to family medicine; assessment of learning; classroom teaching; program evaluation.
Assessment
A journal maintaining reponses to set activities * Written assignments * Several recorded teaching sessions on medical and non medical topics to medical and non medical audiences
Recommended texts
Knowles M The adult learner: A neglected species Gulf, 1981
Rogers C R Freedom to learn for the 80s Merrill, 1983