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Student‐initiated revision in child health
Author(s) -
ALFAHAM M.,
GRAY O. P.,
DAVIES D. P.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02532.x
Subject(s) - medical education , psychology , medline , child health , medicine , family medicine , political science , law
Summary: Most teaching of child health in Cardiff takes place in block attachments of 8 weeks. There is an introductory seminar of 2 days followed by a 6‐week clinical attachment in a district general hospital in Wales, and then a revision period of one week designed to help students formalize and structure their basic knowledge and to clarify aspects of child health which they may have had difficulty in understanding. Summary: The revision programme has to take into account: the short time available, the small number of teaching staff, the most relevant basic knowledge and active participation by the student. This paper describes how this week has been improved through the use of student‐initiated revision (SIR). The students' appraisal of this revision and in particular SIR is presented.