Problem-Based Learning: An Approach to Medical Education

by Howard S. Barrows MD, Robyn M. Tamblyn BScN

Overview

In this book, the authors address some basic problems in the learning of biomedical science, medicine, and the other health sciences. Students in most medical schools, especially in basic science courses, are required to memorize a large number of "facts," facts which may or may not be relevant to medical practice. Problem-based learning has two fundamental postulates--the learning through problem-solving is much more effective for creating a body of knowledge usable in the future, and that physician skills most important for patients are problem-solving skills, rather than memory skills.

This book presents the scientific basis of problem-based learning and goes on to describe the approaches to problem-based medical learning that have been developed over the years at McMaster University, largely by Barrows and Tamblyn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826128423
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/15/1980
Series:	Springer Series on Medical Education , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Howard S. Barrows, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University.

Robyn M. Tamblyn, BScN, is Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal.

Table of Contents

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Foreword, Stephen Jonas
Preface
Introduction
Definition of Terms

1. Problem-Based Learning: Rationale and Definition
2. The Clinical Reasoning Process: Problem Solving in Medicine
3. Educational Implications of the Clinical Reasoning Process
4. Presenting the Patient Problem for Learning
5. Facilitating Problem-Based Learning and the Development of Clinical Reasoning Skills for the Teacher and the Student
6. Facilitating Self-Directed Study in Problem-Based Learning: Continued Skills for the Teacher and Student
7. Evaluation of Problem-Based Learning and Clinical Reasoninig
8. Selection of the Appropriate Problems for Learning
9. The Design of Problem-Based Learning Units
10. The Change to Problem-Based Learning
11. A Summary

References
Index

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