THE TEACHING OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. THE EVALUATION OF LECTURES AND LECTURERS: A DISCUSSION OF RESULTS OF A STUDY BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Authors: M SAMTER, M H LEPPER, M M MONTGOMERY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1957)

Article1 March 1957THE TEACHING OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. THE EVALUATION OF LECTURES AND LECTURERS: A DISCUSSION OF RESULTS OF A STUDY BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINEMAX SAMTER, M.D., F.A.C.P., MARK H. LEPPER, M.D., F.A.C.P., MAX M. MONTGOMERY, M.D., F.A.C.P.MAX SAMTER, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, MARK H. LEPPER, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, MAX M. MONTGOMERY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-46-3-568 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONThe esteem with which medical educators have looked upon lectures has shown a considerable decline during the course of the past century. In their biography of William Henry Welch, for instance, Flexner and Flexner1 write:"Sometimes, however, the professors whose words were to be memorized possessed excellent scientific training; almost all had rounded out their inferior American medical education with periods in Europe under masters. Alonzo Clark, the professor of practice, had followed Bright and Louis in their hospital rounds. Welch remembered: 'He was the one that brought that new French medicine to this country in his early days,...Bibliography1. FlexnerFlexner SJT: William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine, 1941, The Viking Press, New York. Google Scholar2. TurnerWigginsVollanTipner ELWSDDA: Medical Education in the United States and Canada, Fifty-fourth Annual Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, J. A. M. A. 156: 137 (Sept. 11) 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Jones RS: Personal communication. (See acknowledgment at end of text.) Google Scholar4. BarrRostkerRolfeLaDukeJaynevon EschenGothamHellfritzsch ASLEJFCVCDCRREHE: The measurement and prediction of teaching efficiency: a summary of investigations, 1948, Dembar Publications, Madison, Wisconsin. Google Scholar5. SteenJames TWET: Lecture-demonstration method of teaching, Junior College Journal 12: 95-97, 1941. Google Scholar6. Corey SM: Learning from lectures versus learning from readings, J. Educational Psychol. 25: 454-470, 1934. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. Jayne CD: Study of learning and retention of materials presented by lecture and by silent film, J. Educational Res. 38: 47-58, 1944. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. Luderman WW: Student evaluation of college teaching methods, Educational Administration and Supervision 28: 630-639, 1942. Google Scholar9. Meyer G: The effect on recall and recognition of the examination set in classroom situations, J. Educational Psychol. 27: 81-99, 1936. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. Roe A: A study of imagery in research scientists, J. Personality 19: 459-470 (June) 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. Remmer HH: Learning effort and attitude as affected by three methods of instruction in elementary psychology, Purdue University—Studies in Higher Education, No. 21, 1933. Google Scholar12. Longstaff HP: Analysis of some factors conditioning learning in general psychology, J. Appl. Psychol. 16: 9-48, 131-166, 1932. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. Kahn P: Experimental study to compare the laboratory method of instruction with individual demonstration in elementary college biology, Science Education 26: 31-39, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14. EdmistonBraddock RWRW: Study of the effect of various teaching procedures upon observed group attention in secondary schools, J. Educational Psychol. 32: 665-672, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Chicago, Illinois*Received for publication January 17, 1955.From the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Max Samter, M.D., Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1853 Polk St., Chicago 12, Illinois. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySOME PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEACHING OF MEDICAL STUDENTSTHE EXAMINATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL EDUCATIONCONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS IN TEACHING 1 March 1957Volume 46, Issue 3Page: 568-589KeywordsMedical education ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...