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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782652103321

Titolo

Implementing problem-based medical education [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from successful innovations / / Arthur Kaufman, editor ; foreword by Hilliard Jason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c1985

ISBN

1-281-81352-4

9786611813529

0-8261-4661-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Springer series on medical education ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

KaufmanArthur <1943->

Disciplina

610/.7/11

Soggetti

Clinical medicine - Study and teaching

Educational innovations

Medical logic - Study and teaching

Medical sciences - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Origins; 2 Curriculum: Problems to Stimulate Learning; 3 Tutorial Groups in Problem-Based Learning; 4 The Library in a Problem-Based Curriculum; 5 Clinical Skills: Enhancing Basic Science Learning; 6 Clinical Electives for Preclinical Medical Students; 7 Extended Community Preceptorship: Problem-Based Learning in the Field; 8 Evaluating Student Performance; 9 Admissions into a Problem-Based Curriculum; 10 Program Evaluation; 11 Cost of Problem-Based Learning; 12 International Perspectives; 13 Institutionalizing Innovation

14 Reflections Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Springer Series on Medical Education book. ""This is a book about the origins, design, implementation, and effects of the [Primary Care Curriculum at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine]. It is also so much more. It is a first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing



profession....In the 1920's, Gertrude Stein observed that the United States was now the oldest country in the world, for it was the