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## Aim: We aimed to evaluate an interactive problem-solving approach for teaching traumatology from perspectives of students and consider its implications on faculty development. ## Methods: A two hour problem-solving, interactive tutorial on traumatology was structured to cover main topics in trauma management. the tutorial was based on real cases covering specific topics and objectives. seven tutorials (5-9 students in each) were given by the same tutor with the same format for fourth and fifth year medical students in auckland and uae universities (n = 50). a 16 item questionnaire, on a 7 point likert-type scale, focusing on educational tools, tutor-based skills, and student-centered skills were answered by the students followed by open ended comments. ## Results: The tutorials were highly ranked by the students. the mean values of educational tools was the highest followed by tutor-centered skills and finally student-centered skills. there was a significant increase of the rating of studied attributes over time (f = 3.9, p = 0.004, anova). students' open ended comments were highly supportive of the interactive problem-solving approach for teaching traumatology. ## Conclusions:

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Author

Fikri M Abu-Zidan; Margaret A Elzubeir

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2006-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1749-7922)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)