Flipping the Classroom in Medical Student Education: Does Priming Work?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The emergency medicine (EM) clerkship curriculum at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center includes monthly lectures on pediatric fever and shortness of breath (SOB). This educational innovation evaluated if learning could be enhanced by "priming" the students with educational online videos prior to an in-class session. Factors that impacted completion rates were also evaluated (planned specialty and time given for video viewing).

Methods

Twenty-minute videos were to be viewed prior to the didactic session. Students were assigned to either the fever or SOB group and received links to those respective videos. All participating students took a pre-test prior to viewing the online lectures. For analysis, test scores were placed into c

SUBMITTER: Rose E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785208 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature