Table 2 Context characteristics: Medical school and curriculum - quotations
Teachers with high scores on Teacher-centredness and low scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | Teachers with low scores on Teacher-centredness and high or intermediate scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | |
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Tradition; Leadership Dean or Program Director | ‘From the beginning there have been discussions with all teachers and students about our view on education, and how best to promote that view‘(M-6) | |
Major curriculum change | ‘I now have to, you know, deliver, I have to talk about this specific topic because it is the central topic in this particular week, and that is, I did not have to do that in the past. And because I almost always invite patients for my lectures, I almost never lecture without patients,..so of course I have to work with the patients who are available. It takes a lot of extra effort to arrange all that, and it makes it all less spontaneous.’ (A-4) | |
Support educational department | ‘For many things you don’t need the support of the Educational Department, in case of a lecture for example, or other parts of a course. But for the construction and logistics of a complete course, and uh… computers, time tables, and the analyses of examinations, all that is supported by the Educational Department..’(M-1) | ‘but of course, that will be taken care of by the Educational Department, …our own department facilitates everything for us….and I think there won’t be any problems on that level – or might be….they are very accessible, also in case of problems …’ (M-3) |
Management and finances | ‘But also, we have to tutor small group learning, for example, …that is very, very, very …..uh, we really have to do that because of the financial rewards for our department’ (A-7) |