Switching from a traditional undergraduate programme in (clinical) pharmacology and therapeutics to a problem-based learning programme.
Purpose: The pharmacology and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) education during the undergraduate medical curriculum of NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal, was changed from a traditional programme (i.e. discipline-based, lectures) to a problem-based learning (PBL) programme (i.e. inte...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 421 - 430 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2021
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