Problem-based learning and medical education forty years on: A review of its effects on knowledge and clinical performance

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Neville, Alan J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical competency; Guided learning; Medical education; Memory and cognitive architecture; Outcome assessment; Problem based learning; Self directed learning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEMORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; REVIEW;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

EID: 57349141478     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000163038     Document Type: Review

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