- Using only standardized pre-printed materials.
- Cultural beliefs, language barriers, and educational backgrounds.
- Ensuring the teaching takes exactly 15 minutes.
- Avoiding any form of visual aids.
Category: Teaching Learning Principles & Practice
- Skill acquisition.
- Financial literacy.
- Readiness for the clinical environment.
- Socialization with peers.
- Only learning generic names.
- Understanding drug classifications, mechanisms of action, and adverse effects.
- Memorizing side effects only.
- Avoiding drug calculations.
- Avoid ethical discussions.
- Provide strict rules to follow.
- Encourage reflection, moral reasoning, and discussion of ethical frameworks.
- Focus solely on legal consequences.
- Provide only simple, direct questions.
- Encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information in complex scenarios.
- Limit access to external resources.
- Focus solely on memorizing facts.
- Global processing.
- Chunking.
- Random association.
- Overlearning.
- Vague and generalized.
- Given only in written format.
- Timely and specific.
- Focused on personality rather than performance.
- Purely theoretical lectures.
- Opportunities for hands-on practice in real or simulated environments.
- Excessive written assignments.
- Memorization drills.
- Formative.
- Diagnostic.
- Summative.
- Criterion-referenced.
- Behaviorism.
- Cognitivism.
- Constructivism.
- Humanism.
- Reduce the instructor's workload.
- Promote student engagement and deeper processing of information.
- Ensure all students get the same grade.
- Limit classroom discussion.
- University level.
- High school level.
- 8th-grade level or lower.
- Professional medical journal level.
- Memorizes facts for an exam.
- Applies knowledge gained in a pharmacology class to safely administer medications in clinicals.
- Avoids participating in group discussions.
- Only learns new skills in the simulation lab.
- Favorite TV shows.
- Social media presence.
- Cultural background, literacy level, and previous experiences.
- Financial income.
- Lecture.
- Demonstration.
- Group discussion.
- Role play.
- Summative evaluation.
- Diagnostic assessment.
- Formative evaluation.
- Criterion-referenced assessment.
- The instructor's control over learning.
- Access to diverse learning resources and interactive experiences.
- Rote memorization of content.
- Passive learning environments.
- Provide all information at once to be comprehensive.
- Prioritize essential information and break it into small, manageable chunks.
- Tell the patient to read a brochure later.
- Use highly technical medical jargon.
