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Incorporating Problem-Based Learning Skills into Graduate and Professional Student Classes: The University of Michigan Law School's Problem Solving Initiative
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Quinn, Andrea – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper provides insights into an initiative that offers graduate and professional students from across the University of Michigan the opportunity to participate in multi-disciplinary, problem-based classes that foster creative thinking, teamwork, and development of transferrable skills. The paper describes how, in order to improve student…
Descriptors: Universities, Problem Based Learning, Teamwork, Creative Thinking
The Use of PBL in an Interprofessional Education Course for Health Care Professional Students
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L'Ecuyer, Kristine; Pole, David; Leander, Sheila A. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2015
A problem-based learning (PBL) framework was utilized in a series of six interprofessional team seminars (IPTS) for postbaccalaureate students from seven health professions. The goal of IPTS was to develop a collaborative practice-ready workforce prepared to respond to patient care needs through use of concrete examples, skills development,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Professional Education, Problem Based Learning, Team Training
Expertise-Based Training: Getting More Learners over the Bar in Less Time
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Fadde, Peter J. – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2009
This article introduces "expertise-based training" (XBT) as an instructional design theory that draws on the theories, findings, and methods of expertise research in order to create instructional strategies that can hasten the development of advanced learners into experts. The central tenants of XBT are: 1) Key cognitive sub-skills that…
Descriptors: Expertise, Training, Instructional Design, Skill Development
Helping Students Learn To Think Like Experts When Solving Clinical Problems.
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Mandin, Henry; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1997
Research reveals that successful problem solvers must possess comprehensive knowledge, and more importantly, have appropriate knowledge organization and understanding. A new taxonomy of medical problems is recommended, and it is suggested that the traditional hypothetico-deductive strategy for problem-based learning be replaced by scheme-driven…
Descriptors: Competence, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Students
Developing Students' Cognitive Skills in a Problem-Based Surgery Clerkship.
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Schwartz, Richard W.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study compared results of 2 teaching methods, traditional Socratic method (22 students) and a problem-based curriculum (35 students) in a University of Kentucky medical school surgery clerkship. Results showed the problem-based method resulted in similar knowledge level but improved clinical problem-solving skills. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Cognitive Development, Higher Education, Medical Education
Developing Legal Problem-Solving Skills.
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Nathanson, Stephen – Journal of Legal Education, 1994
A law professor explains how he came to view legal problem solving as the driving concept in law school curriculum design and draws on personal experience and a survey of students concerning teaching methods in a commercial law course. He outlines six curriculum design principles for teaching legal problem solving. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Legal Education (Professions)
The Development of Diagnostic Competence: Comparison of a Problem-Based, an Integrated, and a Conventional Medical Curriculum.
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Schmidt, Henk G.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
A Dutch study compared the clinical diagnostic skills of 612 medical students educated at schools with problem-based, integrated, or conventional curricula. Students responded to 30 case histories epidemiologically representative of Dutch society and all organ systems. Students trained within problem-based and integrated curricula made more…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
Problem-Based Learning: A Tutorial Model Incorporating Pharmaceutical Diagnosis.
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Culbertson, Vaughn L.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1997
Describes the problem-based learning methodology used at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. Objectives of the four-semester course sequence are to emphasize fundamental basic science concepts, develop a system for pharmaceutical diagnosis, facilitate development of clinical problem-solving skills before clerkship, foster team-oriented…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
Evolution of Students' Reasoning Skills on a Two Year Basis in a PBL Curriculum in Medicine.
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Bedard, Denis; And Others – 1996
A 2-year study at the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec) investigated the changes in six medical students' clinical reasoning processes as they participated in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. In each year, students performed a think-aloud protocol with two medical case problems to solve, one in cardiology and one in urology. In the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cardiology, Cognitive Processes, College Students