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An Empirical Approach To Faculty Decisionmaking About Educational Objectives

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Abstract

A new method for ranking educational objectives, the Priority Sort, is described. Participants are asked to assign a rank (1 to 5) to educational objectives. This method allows many objectives to be handled and avoids the problems of ranking in order. Results for medical student teaching of psychiatry at Minnesota and Manitoba illustrate the method.

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  1. School of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, USA

    Judith Garrard Phd (Associate Professor)

  2. Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    William Hausman MD (Professor of Psychiatry)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba Medical School, Winnipeg, USA

    Harry Prosen MD (Professor and Head) &  William Bebchuk MD (Assistant Professor)

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Garrard, J., Hausman, W., Prosen, H. et al. An Empirical Approach To Faculty Decisionmaking About Educational Objectives. Acad Psychiatry 5, 6–19 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399789

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