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Choosing Between Lecture and Briefing Sessions

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The World Wide Web, online course material, electronic databases, and e-books present a unique challenge to traditionally approached curriculum delivery. With the Millennial student in mind teaching focus is no longer on how knowledge should be transferred, but how knowledge should be managed.

The challenge for traditional anatomy courses now lies in how to incorporate desired global outcomes and maximize the skill of teaching for a group of individuals who have free access to multiple sources of information but lack direction on how to interpret and develop clinical reasoning. In this chapter, we provide a method for conveying core concepts that are driven by enquiry, critical thinking, reflective learning, and student centeredness. Presentation of anatomical material is built around concepts that have an underlying clinical principle, formulation of multiple choice questions around the concept, identification of key anatomical structures easily located through dissection, and the application of the principle to practical understanding and clinical interpretation. While the design of the briefing session is embedded within a team-based learning framework, its principles may be as effectively applied to larger classroom settings. The implication of adopting a purely pedagogy driven lecture is that not only is there greater student involvement but also greater demand on teacher creativity and planning and a change in the nature of the teaching mission—teaching by “questioning instead of teaching by telling.” (Mazur, Science 323:50–1, 2009)

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Nirusha Lachman PhD & Wojciech Pawlina MD, FAAA

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Lap Ki Chan

  2. Department of Anatomy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

    Wojciech Pawlina

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Lachman, N., Pawlina, W. (2015). Choosing Between Lecture and Briefing Sessions. In: Chan, L., Pawlina, W. (eds) Teaching Anatomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08930-0_11

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