EM students have been surveyed about their learning preferences and perceived characteristics of good teachers [5]; however, no data exist on students' own assessment of what they gain in clinical knowledge and procedural skills during an EM clerkship.
Most of the work has been carried out on children and adolescents and much less exists on university students.
A considerable body of literature exists on college student study skills and habits, with foci on students' cognitive styles and approaches to learning (Biggs 1987; Riding and Cheema 1991), the use of specific study techniques (Karpicke et al. 2009) and the role of study habits and time spent studying on overall student achievement (Nonis and Hudson 2010; Robbins et al 2004).
A working farm exists on the site, where students can work with a variety of animals and even raise turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner at local shelters.
First and foremost, colleges, no matter how prestigious or how small, need to acknowledge that a sexual harassment exists on campus, putting their students' safety before their bloated reputations.
A distinct gender gap exists on conceptual surveys among students before instruction (Lorenzo et al., 2006; Pollock et al., 2007; Brewe et al., 2010), but some of this disparity may be due to gender bias in the instruments themselves (McCullough and Meltzer, 2001; Docktor and Heller, 2008; Willoughby and Metz, 2009; Dietz et al., 2012).
Yet little rigorous analysis exists on how to best encourage students to participate.
Since no formal course exists on Organ donation and transplantation students suffer from misconceptions that remain unaddressed throughout their medical school years.
Little research exists on how much, or how little, students learn.
The Vagenda blog was set up by Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, "two twentysomethings", as an antidote to the endless diet of women's magazines they had existed on as students, 'a rallying call to girls and women of all ages' to rise up against glossy pieces about cellulite and the 5 2 diet and how to please your man".
