American medical educator who pioneered problem-based learning at McMaster University's medical school beginning in 1971, later continuing the work as professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Barrows argued that medical training should emulate the reasoning of a skilled practitioner, having students work through authentic clinical problems rather than receive discipline-based lectures first. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionPioneered problem-based learning in medical education at McMaster University from 1971, establishing a model later adopted across medical and professional schools worldwide. 1 Connections
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