Problem Based Learning
"JUST IN TIME VS. JUST IN CASE LEARNING"
Dr. Hosokawa led the development of the problem-based learning curriculum for the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Associate Dean of Curriculum. The University of Missouri-Columbia's medical school was among the first to turn to an education a strategy call Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and did so 15 years ago. The pioneering curriculum cuts lecture time by 60 percent, decreases rote memorization, teaches the science of medicine in the context of clinical cases, and according to a recent study at MU, achieves outstanding academic results.
The power of PBL was examined in a recent MU study and published in the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The study has shown that not only did MU student scores on the medical licensing exam dramatically increase after PBL was introduced, but evaluations of graduates' performance at the end of their first year of residency also improved.