Medical Lessons

Last week a video came my way via ZDoggMD, a popular blog by doctors who are not me.

The Office Med School Edition

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The clip is a parody of The Office about Problem Based Learning (PBL).

In a typical PBL, the stu­dents meet reg­u­larly in small groups. On Monday they begin with clinical aspects of a case. The process involves finding infor­mation and researching rel­evant topics to “solve” the diag­nosis and /​​or a treatment dilemma. Over the course of each week the stu­dents move forward, working through a hypo­thetical patient’s history, physical exam and lab studies to the nitty-​​​​gritty of mol­e­cules, genes and cells impli­cated in a disease process.

It’s a lot of fun, usually.

The video was uploaded in Feb­ruary, 2007. It’s attributed to a group of med stu­dents at the Uni­versity of Pitts­burgh, class of 2009.

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