title: Applying the principles of adult learning to the teaching of psychopharmacology: audience response systems.
abstract: Medical presentations can be enhanced by systematically collecting audience feedback. This is readily accomplished with polling systems, called audience response systems. Several systems are now available that are small, inexpensive, and can be readily integrated into standard powerpoint presentations without the need for a technician. Use of audience response systems has several advantages. These include improving attentiveness, increasing learning, polling anonymously, tracking individual and group responses, gauging audience understanding, adding interactivity and fun, and evaluating both participant learning and instructor teaching. Tips for how to write questions for audience response systems are also included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. lla@mblcommunications.com
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Stahl
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*