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As yet another in a long series of innovative medical education models is implemented, it is more apparent that the innovation is less important than the fact that those involved in innovations focus on the medical student. After all, it is the medical student that must learn medicine regardless of curricula, method, or training environment. The focus on the medical student addresses the two most important barriers to medical education - the barriers introduced by medical education and the barriers present in each individual medical student. Any real progress in medical education for each physician or for all physicians, requires both types of barriers to be addressed.

-Dr. Robert Bowman



We believe in best-practice cooperative learning
which has the following five important and necessary features:
  1. positive interdependence
  2. face-to-face promotive interaction
  3. individual accountability
  4. interpersonal and small group skills
  5. group processing.
(Johnson, Johnson, Smith, 1998; Nilson, 1998).



Considering the large amount of research over a long period of time that has shown that CL is effective at facilitating learning to work in teams and for transfer, we are committed to incorporating CL environments into our curriculum, programs, and individual teaching sessions.

The College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan has moved to a pass/fail system (podcast) in order to increase opportunities for students to develop the interactive skills needed to work with patients, families and health care teams. In the classroom setting, students begin to develop these skills by working cooperatively with other students. Several techniques that involve students in this manner are included in the Active Learning section, which you will be covering next.

There are two aspects of cooperative learning I would like you to be familiar with here, so click on the two links below:

1. The Networked Student

 2. Teaching Teamwork




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Return to Classroom Teaching Techniques
or The Case Curriculum Model
or go on to Active Engagement
or use the left hand menu to pick another topic.




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