for the time being our pharmacy curriculum is in iran mostly based on lecturing methods as instructional strategies. in this method of education a great deal of declarative knowledge as well as a large number of students could be covered at the same time. indeed based on the job description of a pharmacist, pharmacy graduates should work in a relevant field in pharmacy retail, in order to be ab...

background: according to the available evidence, problem-based learning (pbl) is one of the most successful methods in achieving higher educational objectives. in this method, the discussion about the subjects that should be taught to the students is based on a real clinical case. various advantages and disadvantages of this method have been addressed in different studies, but the students' att...

background and purpose: problem-based learning (pbl) is a term used within education for a range of teaching approaches that encourage students to learn through the structured exploration of a problem. histology comes early in the curriculum and the medical students seem unable to see the value of the content, they don't appear to be motivated to learn the content. this project used pbl to help...

Background and Aim: With the advent of problem-based learning (PBL), pioneer universities across the world started using this method to improve learning quality. One of its modifications, hybrid-PBL, incorporates a combination of PBL and traditional teaching skills. This study compared the efficacy of hybrid PBL and the conventional instruction in terms of preclinical test scores and clinical p...

PURPOSE This study aims to identify how problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented in Korean medical education, and how it is evaluated by each medical school. METHODS For this study, a total of 40 medical schools in Korea were surveyed via e-mail. The survey tool was a questionnaire consisting of 22 questions which was developed independently by the researchers. RESULTS Of the 40 me...