Quick and Clean: LCME Scientific Method Training Without a Teaching Laboratory

Rebecca Greenblatt; Travis Hobart; Margaret Formica; Paul Ko; Margaret M Maimone

doi:10.1007/s40670-020-01130-9

Quick and Clean: LCME Scientific Method Training Without a Teaching Laboratory

Med Sci Educ. 2020 Oct 22;31(1):7-9. doi: 10.1007/s40670-020-01130-9. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Rebecca Greenblatt¹, Travis Hobart^{2

3}, Margaret Formica^{3

4}, Paul Ko^{5

6}, Margaret M Maimone⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.
³ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.
⁴ Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN USA.
⁷ Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY USA.

Abstract

This exercise satisfies the Liaison Committee on Medical Education Standard 7.3 for medical student training in the scientific method. The students are challenged, individually and in small groups, to state and test hypotheses based on real patient data concerning risk factors for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Keywords: Education hypothesis testing; Education odds ratio; LCME Standard 7.3; LCME accreditation; Medical education scientific method; Standard 7.3; TBL.