Each topic was introduced by a short summary lecture, followed by skills practice, using different sorts of models; adult volunteers, neonatal resuscitation mannequin, purpose made obstetric model and a symphysiotomy model.
All students in the year (approximately 340 students) were invited to attend a summary lecture given by an experienced intensivist to clarify particular points of clinical relevance to each case, reinforce the contextual clinical relevance of the pharmacology content and to further highlight the need to integrate basic science in 'real' clinical situations.
A few years later he wrote a small manual, entitled Aids to Scouting, a summary of lectures he had given on the subject of military scouting, much of it a written explanation of the lessons he had learned from Burnham, to help train recruits.
Some instructors use PowerPoints in class, and others use them simply as an online summary of lecture material that is taught on the board in class.
The present supplement, divided into six sections, provides highlights from the meeting, including summaries of lectures and the contents of major debates held at the Congress.
Having attended the key sessions I now set about writing a brief summary of each lecture for my manager.
This article is a summary of a lecture on cellular mechanotransduction that was presented at a symposium on "Cardiac Mechano-Electric Feedback and Arrhythmias" that convened at Oxford, England in April 2007.
In summary, traditional large lecture presentations have problems in engaging the students and in meeting their individual learning styles.
But all of the films resist easy summary: they are not lectures or lessons, but rather messy chunks of human experience, cut and shaped into rough, accessible forms.
Using such a tool to deliver a short summary video of the lecture may act to reinforce learning from the lecture, rather than replace it.
