Journal of Education and Research

Journal of Education and Research, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2024, 117-124, https://doi.org/10.51474/jer/16197

Publication date: Mar 27, 2024

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At the start of each course, students feel overwhelmed and unprepared. The vastness of content covered in any course of undergraduate school can become daunting. Thus, an inductive buffer session is designed as an “Introduction to disease” at the start of each system-based basic science course so that each student can familiarize themselves with key concepts for better upcoming sessions in a low-resource setting. The session incorporated common case studies and supplemented them with visual or physical materials that the students were already familiar with. When we argue for adopting inductive methods, we do not propose the complete avoidance of didactic lectures and relying solely on self-discovery. Rather, our approach emphasizes wherein induction preempts deduction.

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