The design of laboratory classwork

A series of laboratory classes, organised by the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, forms part of the first two years of the Nottingham University Medical Course, which received its first students in 1970. These classes are designed to serve learning objectives dictated by the medical sciences as well as by the basic skills of clinical practice. This paper examines several aspects of these classes, in particular the relations with the course as a whole, the influences promoting changes during the eight years since inception and the effects of assessment. We conclude that the classes are ripe for a formal evaluation of their efficacy and that the major obstacle to this end is the absence of rigorous, well-established tests of attainment of learning objectives in biomedical laboratory classwork. Criteria by which such tests could be devised and assessed are described

Clinical pharmacology · Higher education · Medical education · Political science · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Problem and Project Based Learning · Psychology · Pharmacology

• Assessment of practical skills

  Ronald M Harden, Robert G Cairncro et al.•Studies in Higher Education•1980

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