Harvard Medical School Tries a Problem-Based Curriculum; Its Effect on the Education of Physicians Could Be Profound.

Abrahamson, Stephen

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Publication Date: 1987

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Harvard Medical School Tries a Problem-Based Curriculum; Its Effect on the Education of Physicians Could Be Profound.

Abrahamson, Stephen

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n8 pB1-2 Oct 21 1987

A few medical schools have introduced a significant innovation--the problem-based curriculum. Students meet in small tutorials and consider biomedical problems that they cannot solve without acquiring new information and skills. This experiment at Harvard gives "respectability" to the curriculum. (MLW)

Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Independent Study, Medical Education, Physicians, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving

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