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Monday, December 04, 2006
End of the med school lecture - Justine Ferrari, the Australian
The traditional university lecture will be scrapped by the nation's biggest medical school and replaced by online learning programs. Partly prompted by a swell in student numbers expected in 2008, the University of Queensland's School of Medicine is developing an interactive web program to deliver the information now given in a lecture. The school's head Ken Donald said lectures gathered groups of 300 or 400 students to hand out knowledge that students could now easily access on the internet. "It's a finite amount of knowledge which is clear to everybody and students can download," he said. "Every medical school teaches the same knowledge to its students whether they practise in Sydney, Melbourne or London.
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