Imperial College London
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Emeritus ProfessorSue FSmith

Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute

Emeritus Professor of Medical Education
 
 
 
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Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Smith:2007:10.1186/1472-6920-7-41,
author = {Smith, SF and Roberts, NJ and Partridge, MR},
doi = {10.1186/1472-6920-7-41},
journal = {BMC Med Educ},
title = {Comparison of a web-based package with tutor-based methods of teaching respiratory medicine: subjective and objective evaluations.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-7-41},
volume = {7},
year = {2007}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BACKGROUND: Respiratory disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality not only in the United Kingdom, but globally. A good understanding of respiratory disease and its treatment is essential for all medical graduates. As a result of changes in clinical practice, patients with some common respiratory illnesses are less often admitted to hospital, restricting the experience available to undergraduate students. Combined with a potential shortage of clinical teachers, this means that new methods of teaching need to be developed and appraised. The aim of this study was to establish whether a web-based package on the diagnosis of respiratory disease would be as effective and as acceptable to final year medical students as tutor-led methods of teaching the same material. METHODS: 137 out of 315 final year undergraduate students in a single medical school volunteered to take part. Each received up to two hours of tutor-lead interactive, tutor-lead didactic or electronic, Web-based teaching on the accurate diagnosis and management of respiratory disease. Post teaching performance was assessed by multiple true/false questions and data interpretation exercises, whilst students' teaching preferences were assessed by questionnaire. RESULTS: Despite a high knowledge baseline before the study, there was a small, but statistically significant increase in knowledge score after all forms of teaching. Similarly, data interpretation skills improved in all groups, irrespective of teaching format, Although paradoxically most students expressed a preference for interactive tutor-lead teaching, spirometry interpretation in those receiving web-based teaching improved significantly more [p = 0.041] than in those in the interactive group. CONCLUSION: Web-based teaching is at least as good as other teaching formats, but we need to overcome students' reluctance to engage with this teaching method.
AU  - Smith,SF
AU  - Roberts,NJ
AU  - Partridge,MR
DO  - 10.1186/1472-6920-7-41
PY  - 2007///
TI  - Comparison of a web-based package with tutor-based methods of teaching respiratory medicine: subjective and objective evaluations.
T2  - BMC Med Educ
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-7-41
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17976233
VL  - 7
ER  -
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