Cooperative learning involves a variety of strategies to promote academic learning through peer collaboration and communication. It implies that medical students help each other, ideas and resources together to use, and plan cooperatively what and how to study. There are many reasons why learn cooperative technology will prove to be, to the medical students, useful preparation the USMLE in the medical profession, many of which are very useful, namely:
Cooperative learning is best for activities that require collaborative thinking. These solutions include the long-term retention is desired, USMLE review lessons that require decision making, where solutions are not immediately obvious, tasks, and review lessons, to require higher level reasoning strategies and critical thinking. All of these are required to answer questions USMLE.
Cooperative learning can solve in open problem activities are used, require clarification and a number of strategies for the solution. These include tasks that require generating assumptions and the assessment and research. All these are therapies for medical or clinical diagnostic treatment best for practice of decision making in the prescription. It can also be used, for activities limited resources and lessons that provide opportunities for medical students apply and expand the skills and concepts.
This approach sees the development of the individual in his group of completion of a task and collective group offers performance that is the essence of the work with various allied health professionals in the practice of medicine. See these two, is the Group rewarded by medical students, according to party members learned how much.
Cooperation and attitude to learn mutual interest among colleagues, positive impact on the individual self-esteem, behavior, interest, personal preference, it can help create. Medical students learn to negotiate and more tolerant of others - be a virtue, very desirable for the medical profession is.
Such technology leads to greater cohesion, susceptibility to colleagues influence and not risk disagreement. It provides a forum in the medical students questions, discuss ideas, error make, learn to listen to other ideas and offer constructive criticism.
The medical students of important resources for each other in check and learning are later. They work together and help each other prior knowledge with new knowledge and to integrate, as they explore, discuss, explain, related question me, new ideas and problems that arise in the group. Cooperative learning is an indispensable tool in the USMLE review definitely.
Educational content is the author, Gerald Faye Johnson, consultant for Apollo audiobooks, LLC and premedical solutions, LLC. He wrote this article based on research, interviews and experiences of real USMLE test taker, medical students, doctors and professionals in US medical training. Students and teachers share their experiences with us, some of their data is goal and some subjective is (i.e. opinion) and should as such be taken by the reader.
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