ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2014
Problem-based learning in continuing medical education: review of randomized controlled trials.
Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
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- One image is worth more than a thousand words: producing an atlas of medical signs for teaching clinical and forensic toxicology.Forensic sciences research · 2022Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis of the Landscape of Problem-Based Learning Research (1981-2021).Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- What are Learner and Instructor Preferences for Group Size and Composition for a Series of Synchronous Online Case Discussions for Upper Extremity Trauma Surgeons?Journal of European CME · 2021Article
- Problem-based learning as an effective method for teaching theoretical surgery courses to medical students.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Article
- A Shift in Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Impact of a case-based collaborative learning curriculum on knowledge and learning preferences of dermatology residents.International journal of women's dermatology · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the effects of problem-based learning (PBL) in continuing medical education. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and ERIC databases were searched for randomized controlled trials published in English from January 2001 to May 2011 using key words problem-based learning, practice-based, self-directed, learner-centered, and active learning, combined with continuing medical education, continuing professional development, post professional, postgraduate, and adult learning. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized controlled trials that described the effects of PBL on knowledge enhancement, performance improvement, participants' satisfaction, or patients' health outcomes were selected for analysis. SYNTHESIS: Fifteen studies were included in this review: 4 involved postgraduate trainee doctors, 10 involved practising physicians, and 1 had both groups. Online learning was used in 7 studies. Among postgraduate trainees PBL showed no significant differences in knowledge gain compared with lectures or non-case-based learning. In continuing education, PBL showed no significant difference in knowledge gain when compared with other methods. Several studies did not provide an educational intervention for the control group. Physician performance improvement showed an upward trend in groups participating in PBL, but no significant differences were noted in health outcomes.
conclusionOnline PBL is a useful method of delivering continuing medical education. There is limited evidence that PBL in continuing education would enhance physicians' performance or improve health outcomes.
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24522680PMC3922562W2159466608What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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