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Gonzalez, Maria L.; Salmoni, Alan J. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
We developed the Med-e-Conference, an online tool to teach clinical skills to medical students, which integrated problem-based learning with collaborative group tasks. The final task asked students to consider what they had done (reflection). These comments were analysed using content analysis, and 10 themes were elicited. The number of agreements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Medical Students, Problem Based Learning
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Perrenet, J. C.; Bouhuijs, P. A. J.; Smits, J. G. M. M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2000
Describes the characteristics and aims of problem-based learning (PBL) and reports on its application in medical and engineering education at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (the Netherlands). Analyzes differences between the medical and engineering applications. Also considers project work and…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Miflin, Barbara – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
This paper reports a critique of the literature of problem-based learning (PBL) in medical education. The objective of the review was to examine the various meanings that medical teachers attribute to concepts of adult learning and self-directed learning within the context of PBL. The critique found that there are assumptions about the meanings of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Independent Study