The College of Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman has opted for the credit
system that makes the designing of an integrated, multidisciplinary course a challenging …

Background: Discussions and debates over the merits and de-merits of a single, ideal
system of teaching and learning have ranged over decades. Objective of this study was to …

Background: A Curriculum Task Force proposed problem-based learning as one important
educational strategy and recommended changes to a traditional medical curriculum …

Problem based learning (PBL) was first introduced into the medical curriculum by the Case
Western University of USA and the Mc Master University of Canada in the late sixties. This …

Context and setting The curriculum at our medical school in Dharan, Nepal is a hybrid of
organ-system and problem-based learning (PBL) integrated methods. Assessment of …

Problem based learning as an alternative method of teaching had its initiation in Nepal at
the Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj in 1978. From 2011, problem based learning has …

The University of the West Indies (UWI) comprises three campuses located on three different
islands. Two of the Campuses, Mona in Jamaica and St Augustine in Trinidad & Tobago …

Problem based learning, originally introduced in the Medical School at Mc-Master University
in Canada in the late 1960s, and is now being used as a learning method in many medical …

As a result of a variety of pressures on the existing medical curriculum, the Faculty of
Medicine, University of Natal, South Africa, introduced an experimental module in Problem …

The Wellcome Tropical Institute has assisted countries in the tropics to establish viable
systems of continuing medical education, particularly for young doctors practising in rural …