Will Pathology Teaching Flourish in an Integrated Medical Curriculum?
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To The Editor: The structure of modern-day medical school curricula places great emphasis on the integration between basic science and clinical medicine. Hence new integrated teaching methodologies that include system-, caseand problem-based learning (PBL) have been adopted. Such methodologies are likely to shape the future for medical teaching in Libya [1]. In this article we focus on the issues surrounding the teaching of pathology within the integrated curriculum.
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دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009