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Audience Response System Technology for Pediatric Postgraduate Training

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We report our experience of using Audience Response System among 21 pediatric postgraduate residents in pediatrics as a mode of teaching. Apart from significant improvement in test scores, three-fourth of the participants felt it was an interesting way to learn actively and was better than the traditional audiovisual presentation during lectures.

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Acknowledgment

Dr Mahima Rajan, Senior resident in execution of this teaching method.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Arpit Mittal & Jaya Shankar Kaushik

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  1. Arpit Mittal
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Correspondence to Jaya Shankar Kaushik.

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Contributors: JSK: conceptualized the idea; AM, JSK: drafted the manuscript; JSK: provided intellectual inputs; all the authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Mittal, A., Kaushik, J.S. Audience Response System Technology for Pediatric Postgraduate Training. Indian Pediatr 57, 263–264 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-1764-3

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