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Advances in computer technology provide opportunities to present educational material in novel formats, but it is not known whether these approaches are more effective than traditional teaching methods. In an attempt to address this question, I developed a computer tutorial regarding neuroanatomical localization. Localization is often difficult for medical students to learn, and a computer tutorial is an ideal format for teaching students a systematic approach that requires them to remember only a few general principles and a broad outline of the course of a few major fiber tracts.
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The computer tutorial contained 35 cases, all in the same format: students were presented with two or three symptoms or signs and asked to identify all levels of the CNS for which a unilateral isolated lesion at that level could produce both (or all three) of the symptoms. Students whose answer was incorrect or incomplete were asked to identify the nervous system pathways corresponding to each symptom and the levels where these pathways …
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