CASE WRITING AND ITS USE IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Mıdık Ö., Kartal M.

NOBEL MEDICUS, vol.12, no.3, pp.5-11, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 12 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Journal Name: NOBEL MEDICUS
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.5-11
  • Keywords: Case management, case studies, case based studies, active learning, problem solving, problem based learning
  • Ondokuz Mayıs University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

By its nature, the medical problems are ambiguous and encountered in different ways. For physicians, their solution is a complex phenomenon and physicians reach diagnosis and treatment decisions by using different reasoning methods. Case-based reasoning is one of these, and is attracting attention as an important area of today's medical education. Clinical reasoning researches of Barrows and Tamblyn emphasized that students were more eager to learn and learn better when solving problems of patients. That evidence has placed case-based learning at the center of medical education activities.