Medical Science Educator Volume 5: No. 1

My baccalaureate Microbiology class began this semester as it always does, with a brief overview of the history of this discipline. I spoke of the Dutch dry-goods merchant, Antony Van… Read more »

Born a Catalonian, I guess I am entitled to have inherited what all Catalonians claim to be a genetic trait – seny, loosely translated as “common sense”. I don’t know… Read more »

INTRODUCED BY: Roger W. Koment, Ph.D., BSEF Director As our readers know, most articles submitted to the Basic Science Educator (outside of our featured columns) are generally presented without introduction…. Read more »

The BSEF is developing plans to sponsor a unique and unprecedented intercultural experience of learning and sharing educational strategies with our basic science colleagues in Eastern Europe. This event will… Read more »

The Seventh Annual Basic Science Education Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting was convened on Monday October 31, 1994, in the Boston Marriott Hotel. Roger Koment, Director, formally welcomed the assembly… Read more »

What do medical students think of the Student-to-Faculty feedback in their schools? The most often used indicator of course and teaching quality is student-to-faculty feedback. Six students from 5 different… Read more »

By now most medical educators have reconciled themselves to the widespread perception that our country needs more generalist physicians and fewer specialists and subspecialists. Disagreements remain about precisely how much… Read more »

NORTHEASTOttawa, OntarioApril 27-29, 1995Socially Responsive Medical Curricula: Their Development and Implementation For details on Basic Science Education SIG activity phone:Penny Hansen, Ph.D.Ph: (709) 737.6669 CENTRALColumbus, OHMarch 30- April 2, 1995… Read more »

The second segment of a two part article concerning Concept Mapping, by Drs. Howard Zeitz and Angelo Pinto, is presented in this issue. As stated before, the value of Concept… Read more »

In the last issue of the BSE, we introduced concept mapping, a tool for meaningful learning. In concept mapping, one identifies the important concepts from a subject and describes the… Read more »

EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING BASIC SCIENCE EDUCATION SIG October 27 – November 2, 1995WASHINGTON, DC The Eighth Annual Meeting of the AAMC:GEA’s Basic Science Education Special Interest Group will be held… Read more »