Audience response techniques for 21st century radiology education.
BACKGROUND
Audience response system (ARS) provides an excellent tool for improving interactive learning in radiology residents. However, it is not the technology but the pedagogy that matters the most. It is long past time to upgrade our ARS teaching techniques to match our ARS technology.


CONCLUSIONS
In this article, several problems with current usage of ARS are discussed and several prescriptions for improving this are presented. Simplifying the ease of use of ARS will get this useful technology into more hands. Using ARS in a bidirectional manner will give us an even better idea of how and what our students are learning. Asking questions on the fly will obviate the usual tedium of multiple-choice questions and allow us to quiz our students in a much more natural manner. It is time to move on to more innovative ARS techniques that are well adapted to radiology and its different styles of learning.
Department of Radiology, University of Washington, 4245 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Electronic address: mrich@uw.edu.
Michael L
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Richardson
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Audience response; education; technology