STUDENT-INITIATED REVISION IN CHILD HEALTH

Most teaching of child health in Cardiff takes place in block attachme nts of 8 weeks. There is an introductory seminar of 2 days followed by a 6-week clinical attachment in a district general hospital in Wales, and then a revision period of one week designed to help students form alize and structure their basic knowledge and to clarify aspects of ch ild health which they may have had difficulty in understanding. The re vision programme has to take into account: the short time available, t he small number of teaching staff, the most relevant basic knowledge a nd active participation by the student. This paper describes how this week has been improved through the use of student-initiated revision ( SIR). The students' appraisal of this revision and in particular SIR i s presented.