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YouTube as a source of clinical skills education
Duncan, Garwood-Ross and Haigh (2013) undertook a study to asses the quality of clinical skills videos available on YouTube video sharing site. The authors indicated that the quality of the video material available regarding the 10 clinical skills reviewed was variable. This paper describes the methodology used to evaluate 25 hours of content extracted from […]
Students as teachers: the value of reciprocity?
Silbert, Lam, Henderson and Lake (2013) report on the value of teaching students to teach. They provide rationales for the implementation of a peer-assisted learning (PAL) approach. They advocate that teaching is a learned skill and students helping students are also learning from each other by learning themselves by teaching. Through using PAL students learn […]