The application of educational objectives within a classical institutional framework

The aim of this study was to evaluate a learning system based on educational objectives as applied at departmental level in an institution structurally and functionally preset to conventional methods. The subject of Clinical Therapeutics was divided into 453 specific objectives. Classes A and B (457 and 345 students respectively) were divided into twelve and thirteen groups respectively. The groups which studied the objectives took an anonymous examination using multiple choice questionnaires before and at the end of the course. Class C (155 students, nine groups) was taught conventionally by teachers in the ward and by lectures.