How to: organize effective laboratory teaching in medicine. Part 1, purposes.
Practical work is alive and well, but very different from the traditional 'exercises' and 'demonstrations' of 20 years ago. In the first of two articles the author describes occasions on which laboratory teaching can be most successfully used, ways in which laboratory instructions can be written and preparatory work organized, together with methods of monitoring progress. Examples are given of ways in which effective laboratory work for medical students can be designed.
Senior Tutor, School of Microbiology, and Staff Associate, Centre for Medical Education, Research and Development, WHO Western Pacific Regional Teacher Training Centre for Health Personnel University of New South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia.
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