Open AccessPBL Trigger Design by Medical Students: An Effective Active Learning Strategy Outside the Classroom
Author(s) -
Maya Roche,
Indira Adiga,
Akshatha Ganesh Nayak
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/21813.9015
Subject(s) - curriculum , problem based learning , comprehension , likert scale , medical education , active learning (machine learning) , critical thinking , mathematics education , psychology , process (computing) , medicine , pedagogy , computer science , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , programming language , operating system
Problem Based Learning (PBL) is known world over as an effective, active learning strategy with many benefits for the student. Usually, in medical schools, PBL triggers are designed by a well-trained group of faculty from basic and clinical sciences. The challenge was whether this task could be given to students in the first year of their curriculum and be executed by them effectively.