The physical learning environment and the educational techniques employed by the instructor are both critically important in the planning of distance learning programs.
Appropriate training in the educational techniques would be required.
As surgical residents have different inherent learning styles than medical students, educational techniques used in undergraduate medical education should not be arbitrarily applied to surgical training without further validation.
The positive impact of the content and educational techniques utilised for continuing medical education (CME) interventions [ 8- 10], training interventions [ 11], supervision [ 12] and mentoring [ 13] on the competence of the health workforce has been demonstrated elsewhere.
Future work should determine exactly how likely these students are to counsel patients and which educational techniques lead to increased incorporation of nutrition knowledge into clinical care.
Several educational techniques are being devised to address these problems (Baum et al. 2005; Gregory 2008; Smith and Cheruvelil 2009), and the practical developed here offers an additional approach.
Through the creation of standardised cases for EHR simulation, we now have the infrastructure to improve user education as well as objectively test the efficacy of both new educational techniques and EHR redesign.
Educational techniques are improving, too.
He said he favors "new educational techniques," including vouchers.
