get your head around problem based learning
DESCRIPTION
Get Your Head Around Problem Based Learning. Ramesh Mehay. PBL – Aims of this Session. What is It? What Is it For? What do you need Adv vs Disadv Have a go What do you think? Further information. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Get Your Head Around Problem Based Learning
Ramesh Mehay
PBL – Aims of this Session
• What is It? • What Is it For?• What do you need• Adv vs Disadv• Have a go• What do you think?• Further information
Sophie could remember times when the teachers or her
mother had tried to teach her things she hadn’t been
receptive to.
And whenever she had really learned something, it
was when she had somehow contributed to it
herself.
Jostein Gaarder. Sophie’s World
Lecture (lec’char;n.)
• Process by which the notes of a speaker become the notes of a student without passing through the minds of either.
• Academic period set aside for rest and recovery
The most important phrase in education is
“I don’t know .”
PBL
“uses problems or cases
to identify learning issues.”
What is it?
PBL. The process
The Case / problem
Discussion
Identify learning issues
Reflection
Individual study Group study
Review
Discussion/mini-presentations
?More learning issues
The Problem/Case
• Registrar’s prior knowledge• Contain cues• Relevant context• Integrate basic science concepts• Interest, Discussion• Self-directed learning.• Learning objectives.
Dolomans 1997, Effective Case Design, Medical Teacher
So What DO You Need?
• A Facilitator
• A Problem
• A Group
3 things
The group
• Should understand principles of PBL
• Appoint a reader
• Appoint a scribe
• R.O.P.E.S.
• Learning issues
Benefits to the Individual
• 1. Motivates learning
• 2. Develops clinical reasoning skills
• 3. Helps structure knowledge in the clinical context
• 4. Helps develop self learning skills
Thomas 1997, Medical Education
4 areas of benefits
What else is so good about PBL?
• Better understanding of groups & gp dynamics
• Problem solving• Negotiating• Reflection• Presentation & Research Skills• Learning from each other• Learner centred
What are You Thinking?
• PBL teaches less therefore there is less to remember anyway
(Morgan 1995 BMJ Letter)
• Does not meet everybody’s needs
• “chatty” and unstructured
So, How Else Can I Convince You?
Norman & Schmidt, 1987, Acad. Med.• Little difference in exam results BUT• What is learnt is both deeper and retention of
knowledge is greater in PBL
Caplow et al, 1997, Medical Education•“enhances retention and thinking, rather than just memorising it”
So, What Are We Planning to Do ?
To use it IN ADDITION to the other educational tools in the HDR because:
• fun • relevant• group discussion • identify their own educational needs
The Sorts of thing PBL can be used for in the VTS
• Role play
• Consultation skills
• Clinical examination
• Clinical/managerial/ethical and
business topics
• Group skills
• Presentational skills
Using PBL in Primary care
• Develops teamwork• People learn about each other and
their role• Identifies issues in all areas • Fosters better relations• Clinical governance• Risk management• Audit
Why should I get involved with it?
• For your registrars
• For your practice (PDP’s)
• Pleasure
• It is popular
• Another new LIFELONG skill for YOU.
Further Information
HEREFORD FACILITATORS PACKS
(Dec O’Brien & Pat Downey)
PBL – fpr GP Vocational Training
PBL – for PHCT education
PBL – for Practice Staff Training
•www.problembasedlearning.co.uk
•£50 per pack
Adult Learning
Brookfields Principles of Adult Learning1. Participation is voluntary2. Mutual respect between teachers &
learners3. Collaboration is impt (learners & teachers)4. Action & reflection should be a continuous
process5. Critical reflection brings invokes further
exploration6. Nurturing of self directed adults is impt.