What's the difference between didactic and instructive?

Didactic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Didactical
  • (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
  • (2) Although 100 per cent claim that gastrointestinal endoscopy is provided by their program, only 76 per cent have formal endoscopy training, usually centered around the PGY 3 level, with only 23 per cent having didactic lectures in endoscopy.
  • (3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
  • (4) The first three months of the program are devoted to didactic training and the remaining six months to acquiring practical experience.
  • (5) If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
  • (6) The use of the workshop as a didactical method in the presentation of clinical practica to community health nursing students at the distance teaching University of South Africa is described.
  • (7) Group 1 was given general objectives and information regarding availability of recommended resources, including self-learning materials for the elective, didactic seminars, and viewbox exposure.
  • (8) Interestingly, this study found that the students' self-assessed changes between post-didactic training and post-clinical training were significant in only one area--their ability to manage the medical emergencies of elderly patients, including a patient's death in the dental chair.
  • (9) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
  • (10) Many general surgeons have incorporated laparoscopic cholecystectomy into their clinical practices, usually after completing a postgraduate didactic and laboratory animal training course.
  • (11) The didactic value is underlined by color photographs taken of diseased skin and nails with the dermatoscope at various magnifications.
  • (12) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
  • (13) The 30-day hospital training program described includes both didactic material and on-the-job experience.
  • (14) Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience.
  • (15) Training consisted of didactic presentations on the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and information on use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-A).
  • (16) This set of objectives may be used to guide a one-month radiology rotation or serve as part of a teaching program integrated with didactic training and emergency department experience.
  • (17) Didactic purposes and proof of plausibility may require more data than just the final results.
  • (18) Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure.
  • (19) To introduce the residents to the principles of surgical techniques in a simulated environment outside the operating room, the program consisted of a combination of two didactic sessions and six "wet labs" taking 3 to 4 hours per week for 8 weeks between January and March each year.
  • (20) The sessions vary in structure from didactic lecture to group work.

Instructive


Definition:

  • (a.) Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
  • (2) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
  • (4) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
  • (5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
  • (7) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
  • (8) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
  • (9) The students were instructed to give up the discussion if they were convinced that the partner's position was a better solution.
  • (10) Patients should be carefully instructed in the optimal use of metered-dose inhalers, and some patients may benefit from use of tube-spacers.
  • (11) An investigation carried out over a period of two years demonstrated how these skills may be acquired using single sensory and bisensory modes of instruction.
  • (12) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
  • (13) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  • (14) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
  • (15) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
  • (16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
  • (17) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
  • (18) To help overcome this problem, a stereoscopic slide-based auto-instructional program has been developed as a substitute for dissection.
  • (19) The management of painful, upper-limb disorders by 34 general practitioners (GPs) was examined 3 months before and 3 months after personal instruction of GPs by a consultant rheumatologist.
  • (20) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.