An Opinion on the Significance of the Oral Lecture / 医学教育

Recently, course lectures have been divided up into many pieces given by different lecturers with narrower but deeper knowledge. This is in contrast to the older style of all lectures in a course being delivered by a single lecturer. The lectures today are thus overflowing with too much content for students to handle. As a result, oral lectures have lost popularity as educational tools, since their utility is diminished by information overload. The original function of the oral lecture as a method of transmitting knowledge should be reinstated, with the strong support of various educational materials and computers.

Experience Using Computer Quizes as an Alternative to Paper Tests / 医学教育

Some comments of the author are presented on his experience concerning the use of computer quizes in teaching fundamental microbiology to medical students. The simple true-false type question was one of the best suited forms for computer display because of its simplicity. Multiple choice questions consisting of pleural (usually five) simple true-false sentences were too cumbersome. Repeatability is one of the advantages of computer quizes. Furthermore the shuffling of questions is simple to perform on the computer. The computer quiz is one form of preparation and review, and differs from examinations in that students have mutiple chances and time to take the quiz. With the computer-quiz teachers also have the chance to make better contact with students, and through their care of students, teachers remember more faces and names of students.

A discussion on a education method for basic bacteriology for medical students with computers / 医学教育

A series of basic questions on medical bacteriology for the 1st grade of medical students was prepared on computer display (computer quiz). This computer quiz consists of 163 short sentences with either right or wrong content. Students can challenge the computer quiz as many times as they wish whenever students are free from their formal curriculum. A printed list of questions and their answers was handed to students in advance because the computer quiz was opened to students in advance of concomitant lectures and students had no previous knowledge on which they might relied. This computer quiz might serve not only as an alternative of conventional methods for evaluation of progress in students' studies but also as a convenient tool to let medical students efficiently memorize the outlined index for basic bacteriology.