Problem Based Learning in Medical Education: Handling Objections and Sustainable Implementation

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Table 1 Eight Objections to PBL

1. Learning must be by lectures

2. Students only go through the motions of PBL

3. They will not cover all they need to know

4. Student directed learning leads to errors

5. Our students are too immature to use PBL

6. The PBL facilitators are incompetent

7. The PBL problems are not improved and PBL content overlap with lectures

8. A PBL curriculum is too resource- and time-intensive