Francis J. Conway, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine

Technologically-Assisted Concept-Structure Linkage Teaching in a Medical School Histology Course

ABSTRACT

While the advent of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) presents many interesting innovations to the medical curriculum, it is impossible to implement in a small medical college with few faculty members. Even in a large well-staffed school, PBL can usually be applied to no more than about 20% of the class. For these reasons, Concept-Structure Linkage (CSL) is proving to be a feasible substitute for PBL because it can be implemented with a small number of faculty and can be applied to the entire class while at the same time it retains all of PBL's most desirable features (case presentation, problem solving and group study).

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