Thank you, Lisa, for setting this up. As I wrote earlier, it was a pleasure to interact with so many people, who are doing great work in the anatomical sciences, either teaching or research. I am happy to post a summary of my presentation.
See you next year in San Diego
Michael
"How We Learn May Not Always Be Good For Us" - Analytics of Students' Study Strategies, Educational Resource Choices, and Learning Success in a Medical Histology Course. Hortsch M.; Holaday L.W.; Selvig D., M.D.; Burk-Rafel J.; Zureick A.; Purkiss J., University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Summary of the results:
- Students strong strongly preferred learning histology working alone rather than in study groups.
- Students increasingly gravitate to using electronic study tools over most traditional didactic offerings.
- In addition, students report a strong preference for learning opportunities that are not scheduled and restricted to specific times.
- Histology resources that provide immediate and efficient feedback are also highly valued by most students.
- Students' college major (non science vs. biomedical science) and previous histology experience correlates positively with histology examination success.
- Motivation to learn histology (it is important for my career) is highly correlated with histology examination success.
- Students perform better in examination if they attend faculty-guided learning experiences.
- Histology exam success is highly correlated with always attending live lectures. Students who rely on streaming lectures as podcasts do significantly worse answering histology examination questions.
Publications:
The Influence of Classical and Electronic Educational Resources on Students' Learning Success in the First Year Medical School Histology Component at the University of Michigan. Holaday et al. in Medical Science Educator (2013). Vol. 23(4), pages 607-619. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03341688
Learning Histology - Dental and Medical Students' Study Strategies. Johnson et al., in European Journal of Dental Education online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eje.12104/abstract
Correlating Students' Educational Background, Study Habits and Resource Usage with Learning Success in Medical Histology. Selvig et al., Anatomical Sciences Education (2015) Vol. 8(1), pages 1-11. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ase.1449/abstract
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Michael Hortsch
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI
734-647 2720
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2015 11:26
From: Lisa Lee
Subject: DHIG at AAA 2015
Hello everyone!
If you were at AAA in Boston the past few days, I hope you made it home safe and sound!
It was incredible and inspiring to reconnect with and meet many of you in Boston! For those of you who couldn't make it to the lunch on Monday, I hope we'll be able to catch up on this forum and next year in San Diego!
There were 19 DHIG members at the lunch meeting - I've attached just a few of the photos, courtesy of Bob Ogilvie, Bruce Palmer and Bob's lovely wife, Betty. There will be more photos coming in the next few days and I will be sure to share them here.
Lastly, I think it would be wonderful to highlight here what DHIG members have presented & contributed at the conference! Would you please post your accomplishments on this thread?
For next year, we'll do this before the meeting so we can all go to each others talks, sessions and posters to support one another.
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Lisa Lee
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora CO
303-724-7460
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