DMSU or LECOM?
Started by ryanpj
PBL is at the forefront of medical education. You are trained from day one to evaluate a patient, form a DDX, order applicable tests, interpret the results, and make a diagnosis. You are trained from day one to "think" like a physician. It is novel approach to medical education. (PBL originated at Harvard Medical School and is also employed at Johns Hopkins University).
I am a LECOM student, so I may be biased, but I would not pass up the opportunity of PBL medical education.
At LECOM, you will gain clinical experience with patients at the many affiliated hospitals in Erie in your first year.
I am a LECOM student, so I may be biased, but I would not pass up the opportunity of PBL medical education.
At LECOM, you will gain clinical experience with patients at the many affiliated hospitals in Erie in your first year.
Actually I believe PBL started at Cornell.
However unfortunate, they seem to be at the forefront of revolutionizing medical education these days, and many institutions like to copycat.
For example Cornell recently pushed to reintroduce MS4s to the basic sciences, and institutions such as my own, SUNY Downstate, are gobbling it up. So when I'm a fourth year, I'm headed back to the lecture hall to re-learn a lot of the stuff I've so painstakingly forgotten already.
Tim of New York City.
However unfortunate, they seem to be at the forefront of revolutionizing medical education these days, and many institutions like to copycat.
For example Cornell recently pushed to reintroduce MS4s to the basic sciences, and institutions such as my own, SUNY Downstate, are gobbling it up. So when I'm a fourth year, I'm headed back to the lecture hall to re-learn a lot of the stuff I've so painstakingly forgotten already.
Tim of New York City.
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No. PBL started in Business & Law school and have been used for a long time.
It was McMaster University in Canada, Not Cornell, or even Harvard, that thought, hey what a neat idea it would be to use PBL in a medical curriculum. They started it in the mid 80's and Harvard got a whiff of it and also thought, wow, what a neat idea. Every US med school have been trying to emulate Harvard (or should I say McMaster) ever since.
If anyone bothers I search for the info, you can confirm my assertion.
raynjp:
I am going to Lecom myself. I think PBL is a great way to study medicine. You won't be a robot soaking up facts but will be forced to use your noodles. The only reservation I have is the fact that this will be the first year PBL will be offered at LECOM. My experience has taught me to avoid anything offered in the first year. There are always kinks that need to be worked out. And sure enough, post-bac students who were really the test case at LECOM have told me of possible rough spots. However, I still think if you are self-directed and independent and motivated enough you will do very well in the PBL stream. I'd would gladly go into the PBL stream but I won't be able to make the June start date.
[This message has been edited by cholecalciferol (edited 04-29-2000).]
I am going to Lecom myself. I think PBL is a great way to study medicine. You won't be a robot soaking up facts but will be forced to use your noodles. The only reservation I have is the fact that this will be the first year PBL will be offered at LECOM. My experience has taught me to avoid anything offered in the first year. There are always kinks that need to be worked out. And sure enough, post-bac students who were really the test case at LECOM have told me of possible rough spots. However, I still think if you are self-directed and independent and motivated enough you will do very well in the PBL stream. I'd would gladly go into the PBL stream but I won't be able to make the June start date.
[This message has been edited by cholecalciferol (edited 04-29-2000).]
Cholecalciferol is right. PBL began at McMaster U. in Hamilton, ON. Their curriculum there is nearly entirely PBL; they never have a test until boards (the LMCC--Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada). I interviewed there as a pre-med; PBL is great, but I have my doubts about its efficacy as a curricular backbone. It requires a lot of individual motivation and discipline. It is,however, in my opinion, a great adjunct to more traditional didactic modalities.
