My students should learn about the signs and symptoms of the disease, the medical terminology that is associated with it, laboratory tests and specific values of performed tests, and how to identify the pathologic condition on a radiograph. Students would need to identify the treatment of choice for that condition. They would also need to find radiographs that show the condition after treatment. For the evaluation of the students, each group will do a presentation to the radiographic staff to show how each part of the various specialties have played an important part in the diagnosis of the patient's pathologic condition. Conclusions Problem based learning means involving the student in the learning process.
Students are responsible for their own learning and the teacher is simply a facilitator.
This type of learning model involves the use of real-life problems. The student learns information better in the format in which it will be used. People enter a medical field because of the desire to help others. By using PBL curriculum, students are presented with real patients with real problems. The entire medical education community cannot change overnight, but change will occur when physicians and other medical professionals are practicing improved patient assessment skills and are better able to work with other medical specialties to take care of today's patients.