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Medical Education for Medical Students
– Complete Medical Study Guide,
Clinical Concepts, Practice Questions &
Exam Review | New Digital PDF
Learning objectives
,By the end of this lesson learners should be able:
• Define term education and learning
• Describe educational objectives
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EDUCATION
• Education is a process to bring about a behavioural change in the learner.
• Process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of acknowledge, skills, values,
beliefs and habits.
• Learner a person who is acquiring a subject or skill.
Educational objectives
• Is "what the students should be able to do at the end of a learning period, that they
could not do before."
, What is learning?
What is learning?
Students' perspectives:
>Acquiring facts and skills
>Making sense or abstracting meaning
Anterpreting and understanding reality in a different way
XQuantitative increase in knowledge
XMemorizing — storage of information
What is learning?
Xlearning is a change in behavior,
Acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught.
Modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences.
Xan outcome of a process — an end product
Medical Education for Medical Students
– Complete Medical Study Guide,
Clinical Concepts, Practice Questions &
Exam Review | New Digital PDF
Learning objectives
,By the end of this lesson learners should be able:
• Define term education and learning
• Describe educational objectives
, Page |3
EDUCATION
• Education is a process to bring about a behavioural change in the learner.
• Process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of acknowledge, skills, values,
beliefs and habits.
• Learner a person who is acquiring a subject or skill.
Educational objectives
• Is "what the students should be able to do at the end of a learning period, that they
could not do before."
, What is learning?
What is learning?
Students' perspectives:
>Acquiring facts and skills
>Making sense or abstracting meaning
Anterpreting and understanding reality in a different way
XQuantitative increase in knowledge
XMemorizing — storage of information
What is learning?
Xlearning is a change in behavior,
Acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught.
Modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences.
Xan outcome of a process — an end product
