Integrating Practice-Based Learning and Improvement into Medical Student Learning: Evaluating Complex Curricular Innovations
Teaching and Learning in MedicinePublished 19 June 2007
Greg Ogrinc, Alan N. West, Marianne Eliassen, Stephen Liuw, Jennifer S. Schiffman, Nan Cochran
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The intervention effectively taught the basics of PBLI but did not integrate well into the core curriculum and the time cost required to implement the module was excessive.
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The intervention effectively taught the basics of PBLI but did not integrate well into the core curriculum. Our multifaceted evaluation approach allowed us to amplify aspects of the intervention that worked well and discard those that did not.
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