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Understanding problem-based learning (PBL) using a paper-case about PBL
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Veröffentlicht: | 5. Mai 2009 |
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Background: Problem-based learning (PBL) is an essential part of the medical curriculum at the University of Heidelberg. Students have to face a lot of PBL sessions during their academic studies. The Department of General Practice and Health Services Research meet the challenge to introduce PBL to all first-year medical students.
Why the idea was necessary: Even because students normally do not have any experiences in PBL at the beginning of the medical curriculum, we thought about a possibility to give students both, a theoretical and a methodological experience to get in contact with PBL.
What was done: We designed a paper case about methodological aspects of PBL that supply possible procedural and explanatory lines of discussion. The case was intended to provide a motivating and amusing subject for first PBL session. We accompanied the sessions with a pre-post questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 5 items. Every item is rated at a 1 to 5 likert-scale. Our aim was to measure if this approach is helpful for students doing their first steps in PBL.
Discussion: We will present you the feasibility of our approach introducing PBL to first-year students. We will use our results as basis for discussion, about the usage of a paper case about PBL to give students a first experience of problem-based learning.