I can't comment on SBL from first hand experience, but I love PBL. Sure there are times when I think.. ya SBL would be convinent to just be given notes and then get a multiple choice test etc...
But I love the fact that I'm in a class that's 1/4 of the size of the SBL class and importantly we dont have block week 😉
PBL is def a tract that is more suited to *my* learnign style ultimately. I'm a very much a visual and tactile learner and PBL allows me the time and resources to learn this way more than SBL would have allowed.
This said I know that anyone of my SBL buddies would say that SBL is the tract for them. I think that fate is good at working its self out here. There are pretty clear cons and pros to each tract.
I would caution anyone who 's considering PBL who's into just memorizing facts and into the idea of workign solo; then maybe PBL isn't for you. If you fancy yourself becoming an MD/PhD or DO/PhD and working in a lab then dont do PBL.
There is the allure the PBL has of less class time but that does mean less study time. My SBL buddies go to class for 6 hours a day and then study for 3 -4 hours/ day but PBL students tend to study for 8 to 10 hours a day with group time lasting 2 hours. IT kinda works out to be about the same amount of time.
And either way medical school = hard work.
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