An investigation of problem-based learning in American medical education
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-1485.2015.12.001
- VernacularTitle:以问题为基础的学习：美国实践考察
- Author:
Bo BIAN
;
Zonghong SHAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Problem-based learning;
American medical education;
Local application
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2015;(12):1189-1191
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
[Abstrct] Based on field studying at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),discussing with the teacher and student representatives and reviewing related literatures, we found that the suc-cessful experience of PBL at UCLA were small group teaching, the use of different sources of tutor, serious case preparation, and good hardware support. The major difficulties of PBL at UCLA were high teaching costs, unstable teacher group and high hardware requirements. Because of the cultural differ-ences between East and West, Chinese students are not good at active learning, so we recommended gradually carrying out PBL teaching in our country, making more PBL skills training to teachers and students, strengthening the hardware construction, seeking school administrative support, and giving timely repair according to the feedback of scientific research.
