PBL Muse Vol 2 (#2): Your role as tutors

The particular way in which students are asked to learn has a strong influence on how well they will be able to recall and apply what they have learned in the real clinical world outside of  medical school. The basic aim of the PBL curriculum is to have our students:

1) Reason their way through patient problems.

2)  Recall and apply what they have been taught to the care of their patients.

3) Recognize when their skills and knowledge are not adequate to the clinical task they are confronting.

4) Acquire new information and skills as they need it, and, as medical research moves ahead, keeping contemporary in their knowledge and skills.

5) Work independently and yet support a team approach, a task so important to the practice of medicine today.

Your role as tutors is to support this way of learning.

Dr. Maynard Luterman