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Dr. Vicki Wedel, Head Peer educator Kevin Fang helps
and Neck’s course classmates orient themselves to
coordinator, answers the bones of the skull.
dental student Po-Ting
Chi's questions about
the interior of the skull.
in a lecture hall setting, long-term retention rates are Students improved their written final exam average
between 5 and 10 percent.” from last year's 76 percent to this year's 88.7 percent,
and last year's lab practical of 63 percent to this year's
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and 88 percent, Wedel said.
College of Dental Medicine Associate Professor of
Anatomy Vicki Wedel, PhD, F-AAFS, wrote the online First-year CDM student Nahvid Jafarnejad describes
and flipped classroom curriculum. Dr. Hasel and himself as a hands-on learner, and thought having a
CDM’s Briana Sanders, who helped develop the flipped classroom helped students learn differently
program into the platform, worked with Dr. Wedel through the use of workstations and by interacting
over a four-week period to teach this next-generation with peers, which supplemented what was taught.
course.
Jafarnejad said he could see the model being
Wedel said the class is based on guided learning implemented in other classes.
through the RealizeIT Head and Neck Anatomy
curriculum. The flipped classroom sessions included “It appears they’re trying to steer away from passive
hands-on activities, clinical case studies, group lectures, where you are just sitting and listening,
presentations, and custom CDM versions of because you are not using all your senses,” he said.
“Radiology Jeopardy” and “Who Wants to Be a Dental “With the flipped classroom, you are not just using
Millionaire?” games. Thieme medical publisher’s your eyes and ears, you’re actually touching things,
online Thieme Dissector, which included narrated brainstorming, asking each other questions and
video and electronic quizzing capabilities, was used to getting feedback. It helps you remember things
guide cadaver dissection activities each time. better.” – Jeff Malet
First-year College of Dental Medicine students reviewed for their Head and Dr. Mathew Wedel answers dental student Rachel Malin’s questions
Neck Anatomy by playing “Radiology Jeopardy.” regarding the surface features of her classmate Thomas Arietta's neck.
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and Neck’s course classmates orient themselves to
coordinator, answers the bones of the skull.
dental student Po-Ting
Chi's questions about
the interior of the skull.
in a lecture hall setting, long-term retention rates are Students improved their written final exam average
between 5 and 10 percent.” from last year's 76 percent to this year's 88.7 percent,
and last year's lab practical of 63 percent to this year's
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and 88 percent, Wedel said.
College of Dental Medicine Associate Professor of
Anatomy Vicki Wedel, PhD, F-AAFS, wrote the online First-year CDM student Nahvid Jafarnejad describes
and flipped classroom curriculum. Dr. Hasel and himself as a hands-on learner, and thought having a
CDM’s Briana Sanders, who helped develop the flipped classroom helped students learn differently
program into the platform, worked with Dr. Wedel through the use of workstations and by interacting
over a four-week period to teach this next-generation with peers, which supplemented what was taught.
course.
Jafarnejad said he could see the model being
Wedel said the class is based on guided learning implemented in other classes.
through the RealizeIT Head and Neck Anatomy
curriculum. The flipped classroom sessions included “It appears they’re trying to steer away from passive
hands-on activities, clinical case studies, group lectures, where you are just sitting and listening,
presentations, and custom CDM versions of because you are not using all your senses,” he said.
“Radiology Jeopardy” and “Who Wants to Be a Dental “With the flipped classroom, you are not just using
Millionaire?” games. Thieme medical publisher’s your eyes and ears, you’re actually touching things,
online Thieme Dissector, which included narrated brainstorming, asking each other questions and
video and electronic quizzing capabilities, was used to getting feedback. It helps you remember things
guide cadaver dissection activities each time. better.” – Jeff Malet
First-year College of Dental Medicine students reviewed for their Head and Dr. Mathew Wedel answers dental student Rachel Malin’s questions
Neck Anatomy by playing “Radiology Jeopardy.” regarding the surface features of her classmate Thomas Arietta's neck.
WesternU View Spring 2015 21
