This September, Open Equal Free provided a study skills training program to Angkor Hospital for Children’s (AHC) medical residency program in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Like in much of the developing world, even advanced degrees can sometimes leave students with educational deficits. AHC works hard to bring doctors up to international standards by providing a rigorous medical residency program that rounds out and expands the education they received from local institutions through regular classes and guest speakers from around the world.
Open Equal Free joined the effort this month by providing six study skills workshops divided between the following three topics: note taking, reading for information, and efficient review of information for high-impact learning.
Taught by our very own executive director, Michael Jones, the workshops were designed to further prepare students to engage and retain information presented by guest speakers on topics ranging from dermatology to neonatal care. The goal is that students will now not only be able to understand the lectures, but will be adept at recording information learned in an efficient way and reviewing that information to increase retention and learning so that they can fully apply it to their future work as doctors in Cambodia.
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Written by OEF Team