Effective Problem-based Learning in Clinical Clerkships in Home Medical Care: Learning with Actual Patients / 医学教育

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been recognized as an effective method of medical education in many countries. Because establishing comprehensive PBL is often difficult, we attempted to use clinical clerkship in home medical care as an opportunity for comprehensive PBL education. Both students and teachers benefitted by studying the backgrounds and needs of home medical care patients, discussing various topics, and recognizing and discussing multiple aspects of medicine. Our experiences suggest that this style of learning can be an effective method of PBL education in any medical school and that clinical clerkships in home medical care can easily be adapted for effective PBL with actual patients.