Problem-Based Learning: A Socratic Method of Teaching for This Century
From the November 2009 issue of the ADEA CCI Liaison Ledger
By Nadeem Karimbux, D.M.D., M.M.Sc., Assistant Dean of Dental Education and Associate Professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Associate Editor of MedEdPORTAL representing ADEA
A faculty member stops in his tracks and peers into a seminar room. He sees eight first-year dental students sitting around a table with a facilitator (another faculty member). One student reads aloud from pages of a clinical case. Another student illustrates and explains a point on the board. A third student jots down the student-generated ideas and items that will need to be researched later. The students are inquisitive and engaged; they feel comfortable raising their own ideas and theories. Read more.