For students starting medical school, the first year can involve a lot of time in a lecture hall. There are hundreds of terms to master and pages upon pages of notes to take.
But when the new class of medical students begins at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine next week, a lot of that learning won’t take place with a professor at a lectern.
The school has begun to phase out lectures in favor of what’s known as “active learning” and plans to be done with lectures altogether by 2019. Read the full NPR article by Audie Cornish here.
