Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Authors

LuAnn Wilkerson

Date of this Version

1992

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy, published by The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, volume 11, 1992.

Comments

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Today is the second day of five one-hour tutorials on The Case of the Fainting Soccer Player. The six first-year medical students have been struggling to explain the sequence of events experienced by the 17 year old woman in the case who collapses while playing soccer with subsequent ventricular fibrillation and coma. An older female student, Pat, had spoken little during the first 15 minutes of discussion as the group alternately considered the role of brain and heart in the patient's collapse. Finally, Pat quietly commented.

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