Problem Based Learning
aka a mountain of faeces that poor UK med students are subjected to. The aim of the task is to pretend to understand (supposedly for the sake of their future career under the NHS... ahem) each medical scenario using "oh-so-clever" patient names to give "ever-so-subtle" hints to the true diagnosis, e.g. Mr. Art Attak...
...Oh for fucks sake.
aka a mountain of faeces that poor UK med students are subjected to. The aim of the task is to pretend to understand (supposedly for the sake of their future career under the NHS... ahem) each medical scenario using "oh-so-clever" patient names to give "ever-so-subtle" hints to the true diagnosis, e.g. Mr. Art Attak...
...Oh for fucks sake.
student A: I never understand what we're meant to get from this. Fuck it, I'll just sit here quietly and nod.
student B: so read the fucking 6 lines of pbl scenario and lets sit here for 2 hours BRAINSTORMING and going through the SEVEN STAGES of a PERFECT fucking pbl. And we do this every topic, every term for how many years of medskool?
student C: I'm off peeps I've got the tutor's notes
10 years later in the hospital..
Patient rushed into A&E with a knife stabbed into his skull, bleeding and unconscious.
A: I'm still confused, what's wrong with him? Is that blood? I'll just sit here quietly and nod.
B: I need to brainstorm quick someone I need a whiteboard!
C: Shit, I didn't photocopy the notes for this!
student B: so read the fucking 6 lines of pbl scenario and lets sit here for 2 hours BRAINSTORMING and going through the SEVEN STAGES of a PERFECT fucking pbl. And we do this every topic, every term for how many years of medskool?
student C: I'm off peeps I've got the tutor's notes
10 years later in the hospital..
Patient rushed into A&E with a knife stabbed into his skull, bleeding and unconscious.
A: I'm still confused, what's wrong with him? Is that blood? I'll just sit here quietly and nod.
B: I need to brainstorm quick someone I need a whiteboard!
C: Shit, I didn't photocopy the notes for this!
by Dr. Shipman he he he June 7, 2007
Get the pblmug. Project/Problem based learning
The absolute worst thing about school
Anyone who has ever done one at school understand that it is the devil
The absolute worst thing about school
Anyone who has ever done one at school understand that it is the devil
by Sims_Nerd November 6, 2019
Get the PBLmug. peanut butter lips, a term used when you apply so much chapstick over an amount of time that your lips turn brown around it
by Peanut Butter Lips June 15, 2018
Get the pblmug. A phase used by platform staff of a train station meaning Pure Batty Licking. Platform staff often use this phrase when a good looking women walks past them or is on the platform as code, so the passenger is unaware of what is being said
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The natural way to create firmer, rounder buttocks by the use of Pilates fitness.
Pilates Butt Lift
The natural way to create firmer, rounder buttocks by the use of Pilates fitness.
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