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Student Approaches to Achieving Understanding--Approaches to Learning Revisited
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Fyrenius, Anna; Wirell, Staffan; Silen, Charlotte – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article presents a phenomenographic study that investigates students' approaches to achieving understanding. The results are based on interviews, addressing physiological phenomena, with 16 medical students in a problem-based curriculum. Four approaches--sifting, building, holding and moving--are outlined. The holding and moving approaches…
Descriptors: Intention, Medical Students, Interviews, Medical Education
Barriers to the Acceptance of Problem-Based Learning in Medical Schools.
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Thompson, David G.; Williams, Reed G. – Studies in Higher Education, 1985
Among the barriers to acceptance of clinical problem-based medical education are institutional complacency and lack of rewards for teachers with academic competence in education rather than biological research and clinical care. (MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Medical Education
Academic Roles and Satisfaction in a Problem-Based Medical Curriculum.
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Neame, R. L. B. – Studies in Higher Education, 1982
A new medical curriculum at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, is described. Student knowledge, understanding, and skills are developed through the study of a sequence of clinical problems integrated with appropriate practical and clinical activities. Such an innovative curriculum implies different roles for academic staff. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum, Educational Innovation, Higher Education