Rural Doc, Minifellow, Ag and Education Researcher Buffalo, Chair of Rural Health at Iowa
Expert on Quality of health care and Medical Education, particularly community-based, Developer of MedIQ rating instrument
Paul James did a multi-site study of academic and community-based education.
His studies noted no difference in the quality of teaching with a trend toward
better teaching as the distance increased from the academic center. This was
just below the level of significance.
About the project About
the method
Defining Good Teachers
also James
PA, Shipengrover JA, Crosson J, Young LB, Kernan JB, Heaton CJ, Holmes D.
Primary Care Education: Measuring Instruction to Improve Quality. Academic
Medicine, Vol. 77, No. 9/September 2002. and
James PA, Kreiter CD, Shipengrover J, Crosson J, Heaton C, Kernan J. Students on
the Clinical Race Track where they ran and how they ran. A generalizability
Study of a Standardized Rating Form Used to Evaluate Instructional Quality in
Clinical Ambulatory Sites. Academic Medicine, Vol 76, No. 10/October Supplement
2001.