To Tell the Truth: An In-Class Learning Exercise for Medical Students.

Hafferty, Frederic W.

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Publication Date: 1990

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To Tell the Truth: An In-Class Learning Exercise for Medical Students.

Hafferty, Frederic W.

Teaching Sociology, v18 n3 p329-36 Jul 1990

Notes the particular problems of teaching sociological concepts to medical students. Recommends using a game show format to actively engage students. Exploring their own group-based images, fears, and stereotypes, students discover what it means to be a physician. Provides the game format, dynamics, and preparation needed to play. (NL)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Medical Schools, Sociology

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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