Panda with his take on a growing medical school trend:
Problem-based learning is an admission by medical schools that most of first and second year is self-study. Instead of following this admission to its logical conclusion, that people should study on their own, Problem Based Learning was devised to justify both freeing up faculty to concentrate on their real interests and to not provide lectures while still collecting tuition. If you look at it like that it almost makes sense because otherwise you would have to believe that many highly intelligent people devised an intricate solution to a non-existent problem.
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I have a daughter who is a M1 at a school using PBL. I’ve heard details about it from the faculty and from my daughter and I think it is a great approach! It appears that you do not know about the details of a medical school PBL program or have not experienced a good PBL program. For example the post you listed stating that PBL “..was devised to justify both freeing up faculty to concentrate on their real interests and to not provide lectures while still collecting tuition” couldn’t be more wrong. PBL is MORE faculty intensive. A faculty member is working with a small (8) group of students instead of lecturing to 100 in a lecture room. I’d suggest you find out more before you put this approach down.
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