Ingenito A J, Noble B G, Wooles W R
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4354.
J Clin Pharmacol. 1992 Jun;32(6):502-10. doi: 10.1177/009127009203200603.
This article analyzes the development of the small group case conference format, historically, elsewhere, and at the authors' institution, as a way of introducing second-year medical students enrolled in a basic pharmacology course to the practicalities, nuances, and challenges of contemporary drug therapy. A number of goals and purposes for these conferences have been identified and incorporated into the development and execution of a plan carried out over the past 14 years. Two examples of the conferences were presented, including an analysis of their teaching features. A listing of the general topics of 40 individual conferences used by the authors was provided. The authors reviewed evidence based on several methods of evaluation that the conferences are enthusiastically accepted by second-year medical students as an adjunctive approach to teaching both basic and applied clinical pharmacology. In addition, the authors find that the conferences subserve a number of other teaching functions such as problem-solving, information retrieval and presentation, and peer co-instruction. The conferences provide a mechanism for faculty-student interaction and an additional way to evaluate student knowledge and performance beyond the more conventional examination approaches.
本文分析了小组病例讨论会形式在历史上、其他地方以及作者所在机构的发展情况，以此作为一种向参加基础药理学课程的二年级医学生介绍当代药物治疗的实际情况、细微差别和挑战的方式。已确定了这些会议的若干目标和目的，并将其纳入过去14年实施的一项计划的制定和执行过程中。文中给出了两个会议实例，包括对其教学特点的分析。还提供了作者使用的40次个别会议的一般主题列表。作者基于多种评估方法审查了相关证据，结果表明这些会议受到二年级医学生的热烈欢迎，是教授基础和应用临床药理学的一种辅助方法。此外，作者发现这些会议还具有许多其他教学功能，如解决问题、信息检索与展示以及同伴共同教学。这些会议为师生互动提供了一种机制，并且是一种超越传统考试方法来评估学生知识和表现的额外方式。
