PBL, Tradtional or Both?

[Murkey]

Just thought it might be helpful if we did some sort of tally of what each medical school does, PBL, Traditional or Integrated.

TRADITIONAL = a subjects based course of lectures (ie you do an anatomy course, a physiology course a biochemistry course etc, all of which are completely separate) this type of teaching is synonymous with Oxbridge, and tends to have the traditonal preclinical/clinical break after 3rd year. Almost all teaching is lecture based.

INTEGRATED = Is the GMC's recommended new approach to medicine; instead of teaching anatomy and physiology etc etc as separate courses, the idea is to join them into systems (aka the systems based approach) where you will take a bodily system, such as the circulatory system and consider the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology of it all at once. The new integrated approach also encourages early patient contact and self directed learning. Much of the teaching has a basis in lectures, supplemented with tutorials and your own self-directed work.

However there have been many intepretations of how this new integrated approach can be implemented, one of the big 'different intepretations' was pioneered by Manchester and is what we refer to as PBL

PBL = in its purest form puts the absolute focus on self directed and tutorial based learning. You are given a 'problem' often a clinically related one, and are basically left to your own devices (as a group) to learn about the various aspects of it. Many medical schools use some form of PBL, even if its just for one module like in Leeds. PBL has the emphasis in self-directed learning suplemmented by lectures.

NOTE: These are not finalised and should not be quoted as accurate, we're only compiling data at the moment.

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Aberdeen Medical School

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry - Integrated

Queens University Belfast Medical School - Traditional

Birmingham Medical School

Bristol Medical School - Integrated

Brighton and Sussex Medical School - Integrated

Bute Medical School St Andrews

Cambridge Medical School - Traditional

Cardiff Medical School - Integrated

Dundee Medical School - Integrated

Durham Medical School - Integrated

University of East Anglia Medical School - Integrated

Edinburgh Medical School - Integrated

Glasgow Medical School - PBL

Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ (GKT) School of Medicine - Integrated

Hull York Medical School - Integrated/PBL

Imperial College School of Medicine - Integrated

Keele University Medical School - PBL

Leeds Medical School - Integrated

Leicester Medical School - Integrated

Liverpool Medical School - PBL

Manchester Medical School - PBL

Newcastle Medical School - Integrated

Nottingham and Derby Medical School - Integrated

Oxford Medical School - Traditional

Peninsula Medical School - PBL

Royal Free and University College Medical School - Integrated

Sheffield Medical School - Integrated

Southampton Medical School - Integrated

St George's Hospital Medical School - Integrated

Swansea Medical School

Warwick Medical School - Integrated

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I'll update these as I get more info, either from posts or my own reading. Thanks to all who've contributed.

[simac]

Four new ones are def PBL, as is glasgow (i think).

[Murkey]

umm... which ones are the new ones?

[*em*]

Brighton and Sussex
Hull York
Keele
Penisula

[simac]

Actually i meant the four completly new ones: Hull York, Brighton, Peninsula and East Anglia, but Keele also has PBL!

[medics_rule]

BSMS
HYMS
PMS
? 4th one

[*em*]

UEA

these are moslty PBL however PMS is totally PBL, they are the extreme PBL med school....
had a look round the knowledge spar on PMS truro campus which is situated right by treliske the busiest hospital in cornwall - its fantastic.

[Mac5800]

sheffield is integrated

[brianfall]

My experience with Leeds so far is that it's integrated, but almost all of what you need to know (in the first term of the first year anyway) is covered in lectures.

[Jake]

Warwick is integrated, as is Leicester. I don't believe BSMS is PBL - from looking at their course and reading comments on the forum it appears to be more integrated. However I could be wrong, I suggest you ask someone who is actually on the course.