Full Description
Problem-based learning (PBL) has excited interest among educators around the world for several decades. Among the most notable applications of PBL is the approach taken at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Starting in 1974 as a medical school, the faculty embarked on the innovative pathway of problem-based learning, trying to establish a medical training program which applied recent insights of education which would be better adapted to the needs of the modem physician. The medical school, currently part of the FHML, can be considered as an 'established' school, where original innovations and educational changes have become part of a routine.
The first book to bring this wealth of information together, Lessons from Problem-based Learning documents those findings and shares the experiences of those involved, to encourage further debate and refinement of problem-based learning in specific applications elsewhere and in general educational discussion and thought. Each chapter provides a description of why and what has been done in the Maastricht program, followed by reflection on the benefits and issues that have arisen for these developments. The final section of the book examines the application of PBL in the future, and how it is likely to develop further.
Contents
1. Introduction; sustainability of PBL and innovation in medical education at Maastricht University ; 2. History of problem-based learning in medical education ; 3. The problem-based learning process ; 4. Designing a problem-based learning medical curriculum ; 5. Designing problems ; 6. The role of a tutor ; 7. Basic sciences in problem-based learning ; 8. The introduction of real (ambulatory) patients early in the curriculum ; 9. Simulated patients ; 10. Skills training ; 11. Communication skills ; 12. Learning how to learn, teaching how to teach ; 13. E-learning ; 14. Alternative instructional problem-based learning formats ; 15. How to organize the transition from a traditional curriculum to a PBL curriculum ; 16. Curriculum governance ; 17. Quality assurance ; 18. Faculty development ; 19. The institutialization of student participation in the evaluation: From passionate volunteers to skilled students delegates ; 20. Hybrid learning spaces; learning resources and facilities ; 21. Assessment ; 22. Progress testing ; 23. Research in education ; 24. A review of the evidence: effects of problem-based learning on students and graduates of Maastricht Medical School ; 25. Internationalization ; 26. A role for problem-based learning in higher education in the developing world
