What is it about?
Our study focused on the impact of student-centered ('adopting flipped classroom principles) versus teacher-centered approaches to small group, lab-based anatomy education. The student-centered groups felt that they had gains in terms of independent and collaborative learning skills, but the teacher-centered group performed better on exams, and perceived that their questions were addressed more efficiently.
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Why is it important?
This study demonstrates that there may be advantages to flipped classroom type approaches to medical education, but there may also be negative aspects as well, particularly to student performance and progression through the objectives.
Perspectives
While I believe that medical students should be encouraged and expected to drive their own learning in the anatomy lab, this study indicates that there are some concerns and negative implications if appropriate direction and resources aren't provided to students in this context.
Dr Christopher Ramnanan
University of Ottawa
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This page is a summary of: Student perceptions of independent versus facilitated small group learning approaches to compressed medical anatomy education, Anatomical Sciences Education, June 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ase.1544.
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