So, You Will Be a PBL Tutor in a Medical School

In traditional education, teaching is generally overdone and learning is underserved. Students have little or no time to digest, comprehend and integrate the materials imposed by the teachers. The quality of traditional education progressively deteriorates with explosive growth of information and technology. Problem-based learning (PBL) emerges as an innovative curriculum, in which students learn using carefully designed scenarios from which the issues are identified, the objectives formulated and strategies developed. Students learn whatever relevant to their learning objectives. They learn what they need and when they need to know. Since students’ learning attitude can be highly influenced by the competence of their tutors, especially in the early stage of their medical education, tutor training is particularly important to those ready to adopt PBL to replace or to supplement their conventional curriculum. Three general ground rules are postulated to help teachers to become effective tutors: First, stop didactic teaching so that the responsibility of learning falls within students’ own hands. Second, facilitate group dynamics so that they appreciate the spirit of teamwork and cultivate their professional behaviors. Third, resolve personal conflicts and let the differences surface via constructive feedback. As a PBL tutor, you no longer play the role as a knowledge provider in the traditional sense; you should understand PBL as an active life-long learning and a paradigm shift in education for your students and yourselves.

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problem based learning ； medical curriculum ； facilitator

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