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The Role of Educational Technology(3:53) The use of technology in the classroom has had a profound effect on the way that teachers teach and students learn...[view this segment] Life @ Harvard Medical School(5:07) The Harvard Medical School community is wide and varied and also increasingly mobile...[view this segment] Pedagogical Evolution(7:34) Dr. David Roberts often reminds his students that it was only ten years ago that he himself was a student. In those ten years, though, much has changed...[view this segment] Multiple Teaching and Learning Styles(6:47) Human Systems Explorer interactive modules are just one in a host of educational tools that professors use to teach Harvard Medical School's varied student body...[view this segment] Interactive Teaching Tools(6:00) The genesis of the Human Systems Explorer project can be traced to 1999, when web-based tools were becoming more prominent...[view this segment] Creation of the Human Systems Explorer(9:07) Though each Human Systems Explorer diagram is attractive and functional, this graceful simplicity belies a rigorous development process...[view this segment] Human Systems Explorer Technology(3:21) One of the most important features of the Human Systems Explorer is its wide availability for members of the Harvard Medical School community...[view this segment] Student Usability Testing of Modules(4:31) A vital part of any module's design process is testing its functionality with the students...[view this segment] Human Systems Explorer: Student Tutorial Integration(3:05) The flexibility to integrate the Human Systems Explorer modules into a wide variety of learning environments is one of the project's many great successes....[view this segment] Interactive Teaching Diagrams: Clinical Applications(5:39) Ultimately, the hope is that this technology will help train bright, flexible, intuitive doctors, who are comfortable applying medical principles to patients in a hospital setting...[view this segment] Future Human Systems Exploration(4:08) The great success of the Human Systems Explorer project at Harvard Medical School has set the stage for the development of additional tools that harness the capabilities of web-based multimedia technologies...[view this segment] |
Life @ Harvard Medical SchoolThe Harvard Medical School community is wide and varied and also increasingly mobile. Dr. Michael Parker explains that to best serve that community, he wants to create innovative teaching material that takes advantage of cutting-edge web-based technology to help learners visualize difficult medical concepts. This technology allows him to illustrate time-dependent phenomena, show mathematical concepts in intuitive ways, and reinforce learning by incorporating voice narration into the educational modules he creates for students. All of the material he creates is viewable by learners twenty-four hours a day from anywhere that they have access to the Internet. At Harvard Medical School, students spend the bulk of their time in the classroom for the first two years. The first year introduces fundamental topics such as physiology, biochemistry, and anatomy. Second year provides a chance to transition from concepts of normal physiology to courses that help students understand disease, topics like pathology, microbiology, and pathophysiology. The first and second year classes tend to take an integrative approach, combining lectures, tutorials, small group sessions, and laboratories. In the third and fourth year, classes are divided into clinical rotations, and students spend most of their time in the hospitals. Fourth year, in particular, is a time when students concentrate on the area of medicine they hope to practice, and apply to residency programs around the country. Though the approximately 160 students at Harvard Medical School interact with each other regularly, the school also divides the class into smaller "societies." Each society has a distinguished faculty member as its Master and one or more other faculty members as Associate Masters, who function as student advisors. The societies serve not only a basic support function, but also a social function; they are a home base where students often make some of their closest friends. |
