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Learning and Teaching Anatomy Through Case-Based Learning (CBL)

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Case-based learning (CBL) is a longstanding and common educational approach, which in medical (and health professional) education helps link theory with practice. Cases are clinically focused and help students remember that they are in the process of becoming medical practitioners. There are different ways to develop and deliver cases including paper based and online. Students most commonly work through cases in groups, learning through an inquiry-guided methodology that should be student led and student centered. There are ways of making cases useful and educational. CBL complements other ways of learning and teaching anatomy.

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  1. School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Sydney, Australia

    Jill E. Thistlethwaite MBBS, PhD, MMEd, FRCGP, FRAVGP

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Lap Ki Chan

  2. Department of Anatomy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

    Wojciech Pawlina

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Thistlethwaite, J.E. (2015). Learning and Teaching Anatomy Through Case-Based Learning (CBL). In: Chan, L., Pawlina, W. (eds) Teaching Anatomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08930-0_15

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