John Warren's copy of votes from a meeting of the Boston Medical Society, 1784 May 3

This document lists the eleven votes cast at a meeting of the Boston Medical Society on May 3, 1784. It was authorized as a "true coppy" by Thomas Kast, the Secretary of the Society. The following members of the Society were present at the meeting, all of them doctors: James Pecker, James Lloyd, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Danforth, Isaac Rand, Jr., Charles Jarvis, Thomas Kast, Benjamin Curtis, Thomas Welsh, Nathaniel Walker Appleton, and doctors whose last names were Adams, Townsend, Eustis, Homans, and Whitwell. The document indicates that a meeting had been held the previous evening, as well (May 2, 1784), at which the topics on which votes were taken had been discussed. The votes, eleven in total, were all related to the doctors' concerns about John Warren and his involvement with the emerging medical school (now Harvard Medical School), that school's relation to almshouses, the medical care of the poor, and other related matters. The tone and content of these votes reveals anger on the part of the members of the Boston Medical Society towards Warren. This anger appears to have stemmed from the perceived threat of Warren to their own practices, exacerbated by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 19, 1784. This vote authorized Warren to apply to the Overseers of the Poor for the town of Boston, requesting that students in the newly-established Harvard medical program, where Warren was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, be allowed to visit the hospital of the almshouse with their professors for the purpose of clinical instruction. Although Warren believed that the students would learn far more from these visits, in regards to surgical experience, than they could possibly learn in Cambridge, the proposal provoked great distrust from the members of the Boston Medical Society, who accused Warren of an "attempt to direct the public medical business from its usual channels" for his own financial and professional gain.

Theses, in Comitiis publicis Harvardini Collegii quod est Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, defensae & pro viribus propugnatae a Juvenibus in Artibus initiatis, [1660-1753]

The bound volume holds handwritten transcriptions of selected Harvard Commencement Theses copied by Isaac Mansfield (Harvard AB 1742). The manuscript volume holds only the Theses chosen for public disputation. The volume includes Theses transcriptions for which no original broadsides are known to still exists.

An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Student notebook of James Blake on Hebrew grammar, 1767

A small paper notebook containing eight-pages of English notes on Hebrew grammar and Hebrew script written by Harvard undergraduate James Blake in 1767. The title of the first page, "Of Nouns," is annotated with the note, "Benj'm Wadsworth, 1767" and the recto of the back cover contains a personal note to "Rev'd Mr. Wadsworth" signed "J. B.," presumably referring to Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826; Harvard AB 1769).

Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787

Nathaniel Freeman made entries in this commonplace book between 1786 and 1787, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The book includes the notes Freeman took during three of Hollis Professor Samuel Williams' "Course of Experimental Lectures," and cover Williams' lectures on "The Nature & Properties of Matter," "Attraction & Repulsion," and "The Nature, Kind, & Affections [?] of Motion." These notes also include one diagram. The book also includes forensic compositions on the subjects of capital punishment, the probability of "the immortality of the soul," and "whether there be any disinterested benevolence." It also includes a poem Freeman composed for his uncle, Edmund Freeman; an anecdote about Philojocus and Gripus; an essay called "Character"; a draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation requesting that, in light of the public debt, the Commencement ceremonies be held privately to lower expenses and exhibit the merits of economy; and an "epistle" to his father, requesting money. This epistle begins: "Most honored sire, / Thy son, poor Nat, in humble strains, / Impell'd by want, thy generous bounty claims."

Sermon notes compiled by Warham Williams, 1716-1718

Parchment-bound notebook containing notes kept by Warham Williams on sermons he attended between May 20, 1716 and April 20, 1718, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The notebook includes two chronological tables, at the front and end of the volume, that list the town, lecturer (generally Harvard tutors), biblical text, year, month, day, and part of the day of sermons attended by Williams. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related questions and conclusions. From the front of the volume, the pages contain entries for sermons attended between May 20, 1716 through February 13, 1717. Sermon entries for April 7, 1717 to April 20 1718 are written tête-bêche from the other end of the volume.

Sermon notes compiled by Solomon Prentice, 1724-1726

Leather top-bound volume containing notes kept by Solomon Prentice on sermons he attended between April 1724 and December 17, 1726, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related questions and conclusions.

Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Short nomenclator or vocabular in English and Hebrew: composed alphabetically for the use and benefit of my pupils in particular and for the advantage of those who are desirous to obtain the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue in general, which may be that great help to understand not only ye sacred oracles in their original, but even any Jewish author (so far as concern owns) as also it may give great insight in ye tongue to those, as to compose it, a work altogether new, [ca. 1735]

Headed on the first page with the words "Nomenclatura hebraica," this handwritten volume is a vocabulary with the Hebrew word in the left column, and the English translation on the right. While the book is arranged in sections by letter, individual entries do not appear in strict alphabetical order. The small vocabulary varies greatly and includes entries like enigma, excommunication, and martyr, as well as cucumber and maggot. There are translations of the astrological signs at the end of the volume. Poem written at the bottom of the last page in different hand: "Women when good the best of saints/ that bright seraphick lovely/ she, who nothing of an angel/ wants but truth & immortality./ Verse 2: Who silken limbs & charming/ face. Keeps nature warm."

Student notebook of Ebenezer Parkman, 1720

The small hardcover notebook contains a manuscript copy of Charles Morton's Natural Philosophy copied by student Ebenezer Parkman (Harvard Class of 1721) in 1720, as well as notes on Hebrew grammar. The flyleaf has a faded note, "[This copy] was probably made by Parkman H.U. 1721 afterward minister of Westboro." The title page of the volume includes the handwritten title "Phylosophia Natvralis: Naturall Philosophy, By the Reverd Mr. Charles Morton Pastor of a Church in Charles Town, Beegan [sic] to recite it December 11, 1720 Willm Brattle's Book 1720 ended January 30 Anno Domini 1720 [January 30, 1720/1721]." The final page of the transcription is signed and dated "June 18, 1720 Parkman." The last pages of the volume consist of notes on Hebrew Grammar titled "Instruction in Hebrew."

Student notebook of Jonathan Trumbull, 1724-1725

The bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Harvard student Jonathan Trumbull in 1724 and 1725. The volume includes transcriptions of Harvard Instructor Judah Monis' Hebrew Grammar, Tutor William Brattle's Compendium of Logic, and Fellow Charles Morton's Natural Logic.

An Hebrew grammar, collected chiefly from those of Mr. Israel Lyons, teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge; and the Rev. Richard Grey, D.D. rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire: To which is subjoined a praxis, taken from the sacred classics, and containing a specimen of the whole Hebrew language: with a sketch of the Hebrew poetry

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Aprenentatge basat en objectius aplicat a un mòdul docent de continguts preclínics del grau de Medicina

L’experiència que es presenta s’ha dut a terme en el mòdul “Morfologia, estructura i funció del cos humà I” de primer curs del Grau de Medicina per tal d’adaptar-se a l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior. Particularment es va tenir en compte el fort debat existent en els darrers anys sobre els ensenyaments de pre-grau en àmbits de Ciències de la Salut [1-5] Els objectius principals plantejats en aquest projecte van ser dos: 1) convertir un ensenyament fragmentat de tres matèries afins en un ensenyament integrat i focalitzat per a estudiants de medicina; 2) fer protagonista directe del seu aprenentatge a aquests estudiants procedents d’un ensenyament molt dirigit (ESO i Batxillerat). El mòdul conté coneixements teòrics i pràctics de Biologia Cel·lular, Genètica i Bioquímica, amb la finalitat de donar una visió integrada de l’estructura i funció cel·lular i per tant de l’homeòstasi del cos humà a nivell molecular i cel·lular. La metodologia docent s’ha basat en aprenentatge per objectius. El mòdul s’ha dividit en cinc períodes anomenats Unitats d’Aprenentatge per Objectius (UAOs). S’han dissenyat diferents eines d’ajuda per a aquest autoaprenentatge i a més el seguiment d’aquest procés s’ha realitzat utilitzant diferents tipus de tutories. El contingut del mòdul es completa amb unes sessions pràctiques al laboratori que es fan de forma intensiva amb la finalitat de familiaritzar els estudiants amb les tècniques bàsiques d’un laboratori de recerca biomèdica

Experiència d'implementació de l'Aprenentatge Basat en Problemes (ABP) al primer curs dels estudis de medicina en una facultat de nova creació

La implementació de l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior a les facultats comporta canvis importants, especialment dirigits cap a uns estudis més centrats en l’estudiant. Un puntal en aquest nou mètode docent és l'Aprenentatge Basat en Problemes (ABP) o Problem Based Learning (PBL), una metodologia didàctica en la qual l'alumne aprèn els conceptes de cada mòdul mitjançant la resolució de problemes o casos clínics adequadament dissenyats i formulats per l’equip docent. La implementació de l’ABP exigeix, doncs, una planificació de la docència organitzada en grups petits (10-12 alumnes per sessió) amb un tutor que només guia i resol dubtes. No fa exposició de coneixements que els estudiants necessàriament han d’obtenir mitjançant el seu treball. L’objectiu d’aquest treball és descriure l’experiència portada a terme a la Facultat de Medicina de la UdG durant el curs 2008-09 aplicant la metodologia docent de l’ABP, així com els resultats obtinguts en l’avaluació de l’alumnat i del professorat. Aquesta metodologia ha requerit una sèrie d’estratègies de planificació i gestió per part dels diferents agents implicats que condicionaran l’èxit de l’aprenentatge de l’estudiant. Ha calgut tenir presents una sèrie de recursos que s’han de gestionar convenientment per a garantir la viabilitat del mètode: professorat motivat, figura d’un coordinador de mòdul, material docent i disseny d’horaris específics, reconversió dels espais de l’aulari, constitució d’una Unitat d’Educació Mèdica i vincles d’assessorament pedagògic específics, entre d’altres. Del total d’alumnes matriculats a primer de medicina (n=89) els resultats disponibles són els següents: 86,2% d’aprovats amb una nota mitjana de 7,2. L’índex d’abandonament ha estat de l’1,25%. Pel que fa als tutors, la proporció amb una valoració per sota del 6 és d’un 3,7%. Conclosa aquesta primera experiència d’implementació de la metodologia ABP cal plantejar els propers passos. Actualment està tenint lloc la planificació de segon curs en la qual es pretén aprofundir en les millores possibles. Els esforços de primer es van centrar a iniciar el camí, a determinar un projecte adequat, a planificar els mòduls i recursos, a dotar-ho d’eines adequades, a desenvolupar nous materials i, sobretot, a adaptar la mentalitat d’alumnes i professors. Cal incidir en la difusió dels resultats

Aprenentatge basat en problemes en l'ensenyament de la semiologia mèdica

Experiència d'aplicació de la metodologia de l'aprenentatge basat en problemes (ABP) en l'ensenyament de la semiologia mèdica en alumnes de segon de medicina