which schools are mainly PBL?

[Punisher]

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I am just about to apply but I wanted to delete some schools that have a large emphasis on PBL. I am much better at learning from the starndard lecture-based format. Can someone tell me which of the following schools have a strong emphasis on PBL?

Columbia University College of P & S
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Harvard Medical School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York University
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin
Stanford University School of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
University of California San Diego
University of California San Francisco
University of California, Irvine- College/Medicine
University of Chicago - Pritzker
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Den
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

 

[lounatic]

i don't know the answer to your question, but that's one hell of a good list of schools you're applying to...
MSAR and the schools' individual websites should both have info about their curricula... and most likely more reliable sources than an internet forum...not that people here don't know their stuff...

 

[Mitro]

I'm pretty sure Northwestern and Harvard (np) both have loads of PBL

 

[seethrew]

drexel has a total pbl program for a handful of students.

 

[waterlily]

cornell is 100% PBL

 

[DHMO]

UC Irvine is not PBL based. There is a little bit of PBL, but it is not a part of the 'academic' classes (anatomy, physio, pathology, etc. . .).

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

I can tell you which of them that I'm fairly certain are not PBL:

Colombia
UCSD
UC Davis
Hopkins
Stanford
Penn

 

[Dr.LeoSpaceman]

Northwestern and Cornell are the only predominantly PBl ones on that list. Harvard has some, but is still mainly lecture based, at least that was my impression when interviewing.

 

[HED]

Univ of Rochester Med is also PBL based. A bunch of the professors there actually created and research that type of learning method. It filters down to the undergrad way of learning science too.

 

[2009doc]

i'll be the third to echo...cornell has the most pbl of any school. that's its main selling point.

 

[lulubean]

ucla
harvard
northwestern
cornell

 

[Evil Monkey]

Northwestern is NOT predominately PBL.
There are only around 70 PBL sessions spread out over the first two years... compared with 250-300 lectures in the M1 year and ~380 lectures in the M2 year. In addition, there are numerous Histology and Anatomy sessions in the M1 year and SGS sessions in the M2 year.

 

[greets fr. nyc]

(currently a 4th year at Cornell)

cornell is not all PBL, not by a long shot. The school sells it hard, or maybe that's how it's perceived.

the truth of the matter is: the curriculum is roughly 1/3 PBL, 1/3 small group (path lab/problem sets/micro lab/anatomy lab/neuroantomy, skills seminars, etc etc), and 1/3 lecture.

LOOK AT THE PBL schedule for the last 6 years = M W F = 8am - 9:30am. That's it. Now, I personally enjoyed PBL a lot; thought it complemented the rest of the day and put things in perspective from a clinical approach to problem solving. but to clarify things, it is only one piece of the puzzle.

Where is the other time spent? (see above)