Creating a Student-centered Learning Environment: Implementation of Problem-based Learning to Teach Microbiology to Undergraduate Medical Students

• Published in: Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 10; no. 1; p. e2029
• Main Authors: Kandi, Venkataramana, Basireddy, Parimala Reddy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Nature B.V 05.01.2018; Cureus
• Subjects: Classrooms; Cognition & reasoning; Curricula; Education; Feedback; Independent study; Infectious Disease; Infectious diseases; Knowledge; Medical Education; Medical students; Online instruction; Pediatrics; Problem based learning; Streptococcus infections; Students; Teaching; United Kingdom > UK; Iran; microbiology; undergraduate medical students; problem-based learning; medical education

Introduction Medical education involves training necessary to become a physician or a surgeon. This includes various levels of training like undergraduate, internship, and postgraduate training. Medical education can be quite complex, since it involves training in pre-clinical subjects (anatomy, phy...