Podcasts From The Journal Medical Education 2011

Charles Kromann, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Education in Copenhagen, Denmark (Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark) is also waiting for his defense date for his PhD, which focuses on an important and growing area of research within medical education – test-enhanced learning, which looks at the value of testing for pedagogical benefit rather than testing to see how much one has learnt. This topic has also been the focus of study for a paper that features in the February 2011 issue of Medical Education; ‘Test-enhanced learning may be a gender-related phenomenon explained by changes in cortisol level’ by Charles Kromann, Morten Jensen and Charlotte Ringsted. Read the paper here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03790.x/full