Today on MedCrunch, Stanford medical school alumna Stesha Doku, MD, examines how digital resources can enhance the traditional medical school curriculum to " help health-care professionals succeed in their goals to deliver quality care." Highlighting online learning sites such as PodMedics, which offers medical and surgical video tutorials, Doku writes:
What we gain from the growth of such applications and more general sites such as Khan Academy is that the physical classroom is becoming less relevant. It’s not so much a question of the classroom being not enough, but rather if the classroom is the correct place to deliver our learning materials in the first place. If so, are we delivering distilled and most importantly relevant information?
While we value those who are ‘smart’ in medicine, we must make more effort to value those who can translate their knowledge into improving outcomes and progressing our field. This may mean spending less time on acquiring knowledge that has no application. This may also require spending more time practicing application.
Previously: Social learning in a medical photo-sharing app for doctors, A closer look at using the “flipped classroom” model at the School of Medicine, Combining online learning and the Socratic method to reinvent medical school courses, Using the “flipped classroom” model to re-imagine medical education and Rethinking the “sage on stage” model in medical education
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