Open AccessFORENSIC MEDICINE
Author(s) -
Attia Sheikh,
Farhatulain Ahmad
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.07.1169
Subject(s) - medicine , subject (documents) , medical education , modalities , curriculum , variety (cybernetics) , library science , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , social science , sociology
The subject of Forensic Medicine is a clinical subject requiring a variety of teachingand learning modalities. The Department of Medical Education (DME) at Multan Medical andDental College (MMDC) coordinated and cooperated with the faculty of Department of ForensicMedicine in order to introduce a few small group discussion strategies as new teaching toolsfor students of 3rd year MBBS in 2013. These strategies have since been routinely adopted aspart of the curriculum for the subject of Forensic Medicine at MMDC. This paper describes theintroduction, importance and implementation success and challenges of these modalities indetail.