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The purpose of this chapter is “to serve those contexts where the decision to adopt PBL... has been made and where now as part of the planning process a list of challenges options or issues that require informed choice or resolution becomes apparent”. These include: the identification of effective approaches for training faculty as PBL tutors identification of the roles and behaviors of effective tutors whether to use “expert” or “non-expert” tutors how to evaluate students for the educational objectives uniquely associated with PBL and whether PBL can be usefully applied in the clinical curriculum. The chapter offers critical reviews and summaries of the pertinent recent literature relating to these five topics. The authors conclude that notwithstanding the existence of a considerable literature in the contexts of the five topics addressed it presents as a collection of independent case studies rather than as coherent and well articulated. Consequently, in the opinion of the authors, the generalizability of the results presented is limited. “Their utility lies in the experiences they reflect, the precedents they define, nd the chance that another institution may present enough similarity in program and context to allow some valid application of findings or experience.”
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Rothman, A., Page, G. (2002). Problem-Based Learning. In: Norman, G.R., et al. International Handbook of Research in Medical Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0462-6_23
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