Problem-Based Learning

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Videoconferencing for practice-based small-group continuing medical education: feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, and cost.

INTRODUCTION: Small-group, practice-based learning is an effective and well-accepted method of continuing medical education (CME). However, one limitation is that many physicians work in communities with fewer than the minimum number recommended for an ...
Michael Allen, Joan Sargeant, Karen Mann, Michael Fleming, John Premi (J Contin Educ Health Prof, 2003WINTER)
videoconferencing-practice-based-small-group-continuing-medical.asp

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Medical student perceptions of factors affecting productivity of problem-based learning tutorial groups: does culture influence the outcome?

BACKGROUND: The popularization of problem-based learning (PBL) has drawn attention to the motivational and cognitive skills necessary for medical students in group learning. This study identifies the effect of motivational and cognitive factors on group ...
Mandira Das Carlo, Harith Swadi, Debbie Mpofu (Teach Learn Med, 2003WINTER)
medical-student-perceptions-factors-affecting-productivity-problem.asp

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Teaching EBM teachers: a team approach.

A collaborative Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) course, co-taught by medical and library faculty, targets the needs of health care and information professionals involved in teaching and practicing EBM by introducing concepts, methods and tools of the EBM ...
Josephine L Dorsch, Susan Jacobson, Carol S Scherrer (Med Ref Serv Q, 2003SUMMER)
teaching-ebm-teachers-team-approach.asp

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Spirituality in medicine: a comparison of medical students attitudes and clinical performance.

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to examine attitudes about spirituality in medicine among medical students in psychiatric clerkships and determine whether instruction on concepts of spirituality in medicine had an effect on students clinical performance in ...
David W Musick, Todd R Cheever, Sue Quinlivan, Lois Margaret Nora (Acad Psychiatry, 2003SUMMER)
spirituality-medicine-comparison-medical-students-attitudes-clinical.asp

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Service learning in the medical curriculum: developing and evaluating an elective experience.

BACKGROUND: Medical educators are seeking ways to nurture the service commitments of their medical students while promoting interactions with the communities they serve. Service learning is a pedagogy that links community service with academic ...
Carol L Elam, Marlene J Sauer, Terry D Stratton, Judith Skelton, Deidre Crocker, David W Musick (Teach Learn Med, 2003SUMMER)
service-learning-medical-curriculum-developing-evaluating-elective.asp

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Multidimensional outcome considerations in assessing the efficacy of medical educational programs.

BACKGROUND: To be accredited, schools must evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. Educators are looking for specific indicators beyond the traditional measures. Data from multiple methods, including indicators of student performance and of the ...
Phyllis Blumberg (Teach Learn Med, 2003SUMMER)
multidimensional-outcome-considerations-assessing-efficacy-medical.asp

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The possible contribution of student drawings to evaluation in a new problem-based learning medical programme: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE: In January 2001, the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa implemented Year 1 of a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. In attempting to comprehensively evaluate the first year, every aspect was investigated. ...
Michelle McLean, Quanta Henson, Linda Hiles (Med Educ, 200310)
possible-contribution-student-drawings-evaluation-new-problem-based.asp

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Problem-based learning: effects on standard outcomes.

Dental students at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) participate fully in the first two years of the curriculum with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) while also taking parallel dental classes. HSDM students were first exposed to problem-based ...
Srinivas M Susarla, Nancy Medina-Martinez, T Howard Howell, Nadeem Y Karimbux (J Dent Educ, 200309)
problem-based-learning-effects-standard-outcomes.asp

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The use of PBL to facilitate the development of professional attributes in second year dental students.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate dental students perception as to whether PBL can facilitate the development of professional attributes. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of second year dental undergraduates in a UK dental school. METHOD: At the end of a PBL ...
A K H Pau, R Croucher (Eur J Dent Educ, 200308)
pbl-facilitate-development-professional-attributes-second-year-dental.asp

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Use of Web-based formative assessment to support student learning in a metabolism/nutrition unit.

In 2002, an integrated basic science course was introduced into the Bachelor of Dental Sciences programme at the University of Queensland, Australia. Learning activities for the Metabolism and Nutrition unit within this integrated course included ...
Debra C Henly (Eur J Dent Educ, 200308)
web-based-formative-assessment-support-student-learning-metabolism.asp