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Beyond PowerPoint Presentations: Utilizing Nontraditional Methods of Education

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The education literature has explored various educational methods to combat didactic stagnation, as lecture styles from the last century are not as effective with contemporary learners. Medical education must adapt to continue engaging learners from the Millennial generation and Generation Z. While the thoughtful use of PowerPoint or other slide software continues to have a place in medical education, additional educational modalities exist with growing evidence supporting them. Low-stakes quizzing through gamification, flipped classroom approaches, and simulations are all useful educational methods to augment an emergency medicine curriculum for medical students and resident physicians. With a modest time investment on behalf of the educator and occasionally the learner, all these approaches can be implemented fairly easily in a current curriculum to refresh and enhance educational goals with very little monetary investment required.

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

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Barrett, J.R., Schoenmann, N., McCollum, D. (2023). Beyond PowerPoint Presentations: Utilizing Nontraditional Methods of Education. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_86

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