Interactive tool trains future doctors
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, one of Britain’s leading medical schools uses Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, TurningPoint, to improve learning outcomes of its medical students.
TurningPoint is a presentation, teaching and lecturing tool that integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint. It has a handheld device that enables interactive communication between the presenter and the audience. The presenter can create multiple choice questions on PowerPoint slides for the audience to answer by pressing the appropriate button on the device.
Dr Patricia Revest, Head of Year 1 of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Programme, comments: “Our students benefit from an innovative curricula taught by internationally renowned staff. We chose TurningPoint to help both lecturers and students assess how well a concept has been understood.”
The technology has already proved itself in the medical school, by assisting students with one of the important aspects of their learning - practical workshops. Using the devices (which students call ‘clickers’), students can feedback the results obtained during their class so they can be discussed immediately and in context. Lecturers can quickly check whether the class has grasped important concepts by asking multiple choice questions with students simply pressing the appropriate button to indicate their answer giving them immediate feedback. Lecturers can then adapt their explanations according to the answers received and achieve improved understanding.
Dr Revest comments: “Students really like the interactive aspects, which have been so successful in engaging students in practical sessions, that the school decided to expand the use of the technology to include its use in large group teaching in our 400-seater lecture theatre. All our first year students will have their own clicker and by registering individual devices to students it will enable students to assess their own understanding in a frequent and timely manner and allow us to follow each student’s progress throughout the year.”
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Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, one of Britain’s leading medical schools uses Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, TurningPoint, to improve learning outcomes of its medical students.
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