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myPaediatrics: a website for learning paediatric clinical skills

Ralph Pinnock,Fiona Spence,Craig Housely,Wen-Chen Hol,Richard Smith-2010-01-01-ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University)
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Increased student numbers across five teaching sites, without a significant increase in teaching resources, motivated us to develop a website for our undergraduate paediatric curriculum that supports the development of physical examination and clinical reasoning skills. The website reflects our department's philosophy that in order to be clinically competent our students must also be culturally competent. The website concentrates on providing learning opportunities not readily available elsewhere and helps students focus their learning by providing clear goals for study and direction to resources. As our students rotate through paediatrics they provide feedback using a questionnaire on the website which automatically summarises data as it is entered. This ensures that the website is responsive to student learning needs. The students find the website easy to access and negotiate and it helps to focus their study. The students value the videos demonstrating the physical examination of ch

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Increased student numbers across five teaching sites, without a significant increase in teaching resources, motivated us to develop a website for our undergraduate paediatric curriculum that supports the development of physical examination and clinical reasoning skills. The website reflects our department's philosophy that in order to be clinically competent our students must also be culturally competent. The website concentrates on providing learning opportunities not readily available elsewhere and helps students focus their learning by providing clear goals for study and direction to resources. As our students rotate through paediatrics they provide feedback using a questionnaire on the website which automatically summarises data as it is entered. This ensures that the website is responsive to student learning needs. The students find the website easy to access and negotiate and it helps to focus their study. The students value the videos demonstrating the physical examination of ch

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CurriculumNegotiationMedical educationFocus groupComputer sciencePsychologyMultimediaMedicine

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