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Abstract
E-mail: [email protected] their APPE reported confidence in the material they had been taught using PBL, specifically medical information, basic science content regarding disease states, and patientspecific drug regimen evaluation.7 Bookstaver and colleagues described an elective course focusing on evidence-based medicine to improve student performance in APPEs.8 While there were several similarities to our course including a small class size and real-life patient case scenarios, the elective course described here differed in that it was designed to encourage self-directed learning and the enhancement of problem-solving skills in a PBL format. The students did not have any prior knowledge of the content of the cases, but all pharmacotherapeutic topics included in cases had been previously covered in the curriculum. [...]the cases served as a way for students to reinforce and apply their clinical knowledge.