BACKGROUND Instant messaging applications have the potential to improve and facilitate communication between hospital doctors and students, hence generating and improving learning opportunities. This study aims to demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of instant messaging communication to supplement medical education for medical students whilst on clinical attachment. METHODS A total ...

BACKGROUND Problem based learning (PBL) has made major impact on curricular designing and practice in medical education for the last forty years. Incorporation of PBL approach in medical education has been a challenge and opportunity for both educationists on how to impart change and medical teachers on how to internalise the change. OBJECTIVES This paper aimed to investigate experiences, ach...

background: in the recent years, new medical technologies and their probable misusing have emerged public concerns about medical ethics. medical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine. methods: in this study we reviewed some new methods of teaching medical ethics in other countries by sea...

BACKGROUND Problem based learning (PBL) is used increasingly in undergraduate medical education, but there are few postgraduate medical studies. AIM To compare SHO learning outcomes for a PBL course with a traditional didactic course. METHODS As part of their protected teaching programme, 14 senior house officers (SHOs) were taught about paediatric dermatology using a traditional didactic c...

Introduction: In traditional medical education systems much interest isplaced on the cramming of basic and clinical facts without considering theirapplicability in the future professional career. The aim of this study is to evaluatea novice medical training method (problem-based learning) as compared tothe contemporary teacher-based medical education or traditional methods.Methods: Selection of...

to present a multiple-instructor, active-learning strategy in the undergraduate medical curriculum. this educational research is a descriptive one. shared teaching sessions, were designed for undergraduate medical students in six organ-system based courses. sessions that involved in-class discussions of integrated clinical cases were designed implemented and moderated by at least 3 faculties (c...

background: problem-based learning is a student-centered teaching method that encourages students to become active learners in the classroom and  to improve the learning processes.  the aim of this study was to compare two methods of teaching, problem- based learning (pbl) and lecture-based learning, in an embryology course. methods: this was a semi-experimental study conducted in kurdistan uni...

The last twenty years have seen the development and rise in popularity of Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the UK, Canada and medical schools elsewhere across the globe. So too have nursing courses across the UK embraced Enquiry Based Learning (EBL), a similar self-directed learning technique. Both PBL and EBL are considerably cheaper to operate compared to traditional courses. Nurses and doctor...