PROBLEM BASED LEARNING: A PANACEA OR A PROBLEM?
Abstract
Over the past few years medical experts and
educationists have been debating and most of the time
advocating ‘Problem Based learning’ (PBL) to halt
deteriorating standards of medical education. Those
who are strong advocates of adopting PBL in
medical schools have been citing philosophical
literature and global work on this subject. Exploring
an idea is appreciable but falling for an idea without
due consideration to local realities is not wise. Every
medical school is trying to adopt it earlier than the
other thus trying to have the honour of achieving this
glory in medicine before any body else. While the idea
and philosophy of PBL is excellent but is it universally
effective? Certainly not. Professionals are expected to
bring reasonable balance between what is ideal and
what is real. Change without need assessment and
blind faith in global processes and changes would end
up in disaster far greater than what we have today.
In countries like ours, one has to look at the
logistics and basic requirements of PBL.
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