Quiet down: Medical schools try eliminating lectures
Beginning in the summer of 2019, the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine will institute a dramatic change in its curriculum: no more lectures.
As the Washington Post reports, it’s not the first school to get rid of this typical teaching method—Case Western Reserve University has gone without lectures since its medical school opened in 2004. But the fact that Larner, the seventh-oldest medical school in the U.S., is adopting the change may be a sign of greater experimentation in medical education.
Or it could be schools are listening to research that shows the “sage on a stage” lecture style is an ineffective way of absorbing information.
“Retention after a lecture is maybe 10 percent,” said Charles G. Prober, senior associate dean for medical education at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “If that’s accurate, if it’s even in the ballpark of accurate, that’s a problem.”
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