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Basic sciences in problem‐based learning and conventional curricula: students' attitudes
Author(s) -
Kaufman David M,
Mann Karen V
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1997.tb02562.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , class (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , problem based learning , mathematics education , medical education , psychology , medicine , pedagogy , computer science , paleontology , artificial intelligence , biology
SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes toward basic sciences of students in a preclinical problem‐based curriculum and a conventional lecture‐based curriculum at the end of their second year of medical school. The results showed that the PBL class had more positive attitudes toward basic sciences than students in the conventional class. These results may reflect a learning environment where students meet many scientist role models as teachers and where basic science is learnt in the context of clinical problems.