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Systems based is actually very good as well, depends entirely on the teaching, and what you put into it whatever, I'm personally not a fan of PBL (I'm into Med Ed so am not unfamiliar with it), however it works for some, not to say its better, or worse than any other method.
I personally am formally taught using systems based, the teaching is good, covers a lot in lectures, but my course also has a lot of group work based on lectures, also a lot of self directed learning based on application of this into clinical scenarios, so I felt confident going to patients both in early part of course and phase 2.
I think it depends entirely on the balance of teaching in medical school, i wouldn't say one was better than the other, except for individual people, remember how diverse the medical population is...what prepares one person well may not do the same for another, just as no 2 patients (even with the same diagnosis) are ever the same in treatment.
Confession - i also tend to pinch PBL cases from the net for revision after modules,and indeed for finals revision - downloaded loads from KCL until they stuck a password on them!
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