The introduction of problem-based learning projects into a clinical correlation course in the first year of the Edinburgh medical curriculum.
Thirty hours were allotted to problem-based learning projects in the first year of a new medical curriculum in Edinburgh. Those projects have been very successful in encouraging student initiative and in satisfying the students' desire for contact with patients, relatives and medical staff early in the curriculum. The difficulties involved in this form of teaching and the shortcomings of the exercise are discussed.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving; D012606:Scotland; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*