Unsure about PBL at LECOM-B

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To each their own. I read hundreds of pages for the Mcat sciences but not the same way I would read a textbook. I would skim for important things instead of legitimately try to absorb every word from a textbook, which is what the lecom-b students told my group.

Each time a post is made on this thread it just reassures me that that pbl is just not for me. I just don't want people to be misled because I see a difference between the advocaters on SDN and people from LECOM-B I contact personally. Everyone is different with their learning styles and I personally just don't do well with reading mass pages while wondering in the back of my mind if I'm wasting my time reading a section about specific enzymes in a Random bacteria. The same could be said for a PBL lover who hates wasting time sitting in a lecture hall.

Couldn't agree more, and I am on the other end of the spectrum. Everything I've read here has made me more excited about PBL as I just put down my deposit last week. There's no right or wrong answer when it comes to a curriculum, it's all about picking what's right for you and fits your learning style.
 
Most of what people are saying here with learning "extra stuff" in PBL is crap.
Boards questions are written based on information in text books. Not powerpoints.If PBL is not for you, great. If you like lecture, great. But PBL does not require you to learn more than you need any more so than any lecture curriculum teaches you more than you need. PBL is about self-study for understanding the basic sciences and their mechanisms instead of having someone talk bullet points at you and trying to memorize them. The goal is the same, the method is different. Boards don't have a certain set of facts that they test from. They have a huge gigantic mess of crap they can test on. You will only get a fraction of it on your actual exam. If you're trying to get through med school learning the absolute minimum you need to pass boards, I'm afraid your attitude will not serve you well in medical school or beyond, no matter what school you attend or what curriculum it uses.
 
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