Problem based learning and traditional methods of medical students’ training

Abstract

The aim of our study was to perform a benchmarking of traditional teaching and PBL methods of training medical students. The main goal was to identify what are the gaps and priorities of both methods, and to analyze which of those methods is more suitable and sustainable for our curriculum. A benchmarking of the traditional curriculum of training medical students in Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and PBL curriculum used in Aalborg University was done. Traditional methods of training used for more than seventy years in our University had proved its sustainability, but nevertheless problem based learning was analyzed as a new challenge for gaining sustainable knowledge base attained by collaboration both in projects and self-directed learning, problem solving, communication and dissemination of information, developing clinical and critical thinking at interdisciplinary level and higher employment opportunities for graduates.