Enriching the clerkship curriculum with blended e-leaming

摘要

Context and setting The pre-clinical years of undergraduate medical education have recently witnessed a shift away from the traditional, lecture-based model of teaching towards new instructional methods designed to encourage student-centred learning. Blended e-learning, which combines online self-study modules with face-to-face teaching, can be used to achieve this goal. Although the use of blended e-learning in the pre-clinical years has been described in the literature, there have been few reports about this method of instruction at the clinical clerkship level.Why the idea was necessary Prior to this project, formal clinical clerkship teaching at our university involved didactic weekly seminars presented by faculty members. Rising enrolment without any increase in the number of teachers led us to investigate novel methods of content delivery. The purpose of this project, therefore, was to improve teaching for clinical clerks at our institution while maximising the quality of the time spent with teaching faculty.