Problem-Based Learning

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Teaching of parasitology to students of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences.

The teaching of an applied parasitology course suitable for both veterinary and biomedical students is described. A common lecture course is given complemented by separate and specific practical, research and problem-based learning components designed ...
R C A Thompson, A J Lymbery, R P Hobbs (Vet Parasitol, 200210)
teaching-parasitology-students-veterinary-medicine-biomedical-sciences.asp

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Gender, economic context, perceptions of safety, and quality of life: a case study of Lowell, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), 1982-96.

From 1982 through 1996, 840 structured interviews about urban quality of life (QOL) were conducted with residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, by graduate students in a seminar about the city. Perceptions of safety and general QOL were analyzed by social ...
Anne Mulvey (Am J Community Psychol, 200210)
gender-economic-context-perceptions-safety-quality-life-case-study.asp

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Promoting, applying, and evaluating problem-based learning in the undergraduate nursing curriculum.

Since its development in the 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) has become increasingly prominent in nursing education. In 1998, Samford University received a grant from the PEW Charitable Trusts to promote, apply, and evaluate PBL in its undergraduate ...
Janet G Alexander, Gretchen S McDaniel, Mary Sue Baldwin, Barbara J Money (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200209-10)
promoting-applying-evaluating-problem-based-learning-undergraduate.asp

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The 60-Second Nurse Educator: Creative strategies to inspire learning.

Educational content that is presented, attended to, remembered, and reinforced in a "fun setting" will have a greater likelihood of being learned. Creative strategies integrated throughout the learning environment are effective in increasing retention of ...
Judith W Herrman (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200209-10)
-second-nurse-educator-creative-strategies-inspire-learning.asp

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Small-group work and assessment in a PBL curriculum: a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of student perceptions of the process of working in small groups and its assessment.

The problem based learning (PBL) curriculum at Manchester emphasizes small-group work. This is supported through group assessment where students assess key aspects of their groups function. In the study described here the authors evaluated students ...
S C Willis, A Jones, C Bundy, K Burdett, C R Whitehouse, P A ONeill (Med Teach, 200209)
small-group-work-assessment-pbl-curriculum-qualitative-quantitative.asp

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Relations between background, process and outcome in the first semester of a new, problem-based medical curriculum.

The authors investigated the relations between students background (gender, age, study experience), learning process (learning approach, independent study time) and outcome (examination results, satisfaction) in the first semester of a new, integrated ...
Vegard Bruun Wyller, Torgeir Bruun Wyller (Med Teach, 200209)
relations-background-process-outcome-first-semester-new-problem-based.asp

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Assessing clinical reasoning: a method to monitor its development in a PBL curriculum.

The aim of this study was to develop and trial a method to monitor the evolution of clinical reasoning in a PBL curriculum that is suitable for use in a large medical school. Termed Clinical Reasoning Problems (CRPs), it is based on the notion that ...
Michele Groves, Ian Scott, Heather Alexander (Med Teach, 200209)
assessing-clinical-reasoning-method-monitor-development-pbl-curriculum.asp

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A new era of dental education at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Dental education is currently under scrutiny in order to most appropriately address community needs for the new millennium. Educational outcomes need to include a commitment to life-long learning, and an emphasis on professional ethics and moral ...
I Klineberg, W Massey, M Thomas, D Cockrell (Aust Dent J, 200209)
new-era-dental-education-university-sydney-australia.asp

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Evaluation of distance learning delivery of health information management and health informatics programmes: a UK perspective.

The aim of the article is to review evaluations of distance learning programmes in health information management, in order to identify the critical success factors for such programmes and discuss future directions. The emphasis is on the UK experience, ...
Christine Urquhart, Mary Chambers, Samantha Connor, Leo Lewis, Jeannette Murphy, Ruth Roberts, Rhian Thomas (Health Info Libr J, 200209)
evaluation-distance-learning-delivery-health-information-management.asp

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Promoting diagnostic problem representation.

PURPOSE: Problem representation, as mediated by semantic qualifiers (SQs), has been associated with better diagnostic outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of training medical students to use semantic abstractions as a means of ...
Mathieu R Nendaz, Georges Bordage (Med Educ, 200208)
promoting-diagnostic-problem-representation.asp