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Small Group Learning
“Group discussion plays a valuable role in the all-round education of students, whether in problem based learning and team projects or in the more traditional academic scenario of the tutorial or seminar. When it works well, discussion can allow students to negotiate meanings, express themselves in the language of the subject, and establish closer contact with academic staff than more formal methods permit. Discussion can also develop the more instrumental skills of listening, presenting ideas, persuading, and working as part of a team. But perhaps most importantly, discussion in small groups can or should give students the chance to monitor their own learning and thus gain a degree of self-direction and independence in their studies.”
”ABC of learning and teaching in medicine - Teaching Small Groups”
BMJ 2003; 326:492-494 (1 March 2003) David Jaques.
NT General Practice Education adopts small group learning techniques to enhance participant education in the GP Training program. Groups convene in Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine and Nhulunbuy. Each group meets fortnightly for three hours or weekly for ninety mintues depending upon the location.
Each small group will have a Medical Educator present. The first meeting of the year will be to organise a draft plan for the year’s topics/events. Most group meetings will involve a guest speaker. The group is to convene before the guest speaker arrives to generate suitable questions for the speaker. Group members will ideally have considered the objectives for the session and topic beforehand and may have done some prereading.
After each meeting members will be expected to fill out a feedback form.
Registrars need to document their attendance in their own portfolio or in your Learning Plan on RRMEO. All Basic and Advanced registrars in General Practice clinical terms will be expected to attend the majority of small group sessions. Subsequent term GP registrars are invited to attend these valueable peer to peer education sessions.
