Problem-Based Learning

Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 37-52

  Albanese, Mark A ^a,b  

^a National Conference of Bar Examiners   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

MedEdPORTAL, resource developed by Association of American Medical Colleges; Organisation and grading administration and governance; PBL best practices consortium; PBL effectiveness; PBL, characterised as instructional methods patient problems, context for students to acquire knowledge; Problem based learning; Problem based learning (PBL), dominant forms of medical education in the world; Seven qualities required of appropriate PBL problem; Simulations in medical education by McGuire and Babbott; Undergraduate science grade point averages (SGPA) Step 1 failure rate for students in PBL track

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871446991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320282.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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