Experience with a Tape-Slide Service

PROCEEDINGS OF THE British Pharmacological Society 15th‐16th July, 1976 UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE COMMUNICATIONS

“…Linking audio-tape with slides to provide a single educational unit is of more recent origin although in some institutions the method has been in use for about a decade (Amos, Duncan, Gilder, Hall & Smart, 1969;Holloway, 1964). Furthermore, the Medical Recording Service Foundation of the Royal College of General Practitioners has developed a large catalogue of recordings illustrated by slides which is extensively used and covers a wide range of subjects (Graves, 1971). This illustrates that even at the postgraduate level, where a helpful source of information exists, demand for it will be forthcoming, although research information on the efficacy of the service is lacking.…”

Self-instruction in general pathology by means of tape slide presentations

“…The use of audio tape and 35 mm transparencies in combination for self‐instruction is not new in medical education. In 1957 John and Valerie Graves founded the Medical Recording Service which made audio tapes available to general practitioners, and their system expanded steadily so that they now have a library of tapes and transparencies of interest to people in all branches of medicine, including medical students (Graves, 1971). Harden, Wayne, and Donald (1968) were among the first to use tape slide presentations in undergraduate medical education at Glasgow, and a library of tape slide presentations has been built up at the University of Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne for the same purpose (Amos, Duncan, Gilder, Hall, and Smart, 1969), some being produced at Newcastle and some being borrowed from other centres.…”