Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within these groups, the students are presented with a "case"--a hypothetical patient with a disease, often modeled on real patients. The students investigate these cases by looking up medical texts on their own and discussing the results of their research in class...
...purpose is not to diagnose or learn to treat the patient, but to understand the science...that underlies the problem," Federman says...
...instance, given the case of a patient with lung cancer complaining of a cough, students must learn how cancer develops and spreads in cells in order to understand the biology behind the disease...
...patient's illness rather than just the disease becomes important," Good says...
Within these groups, the students are presented with a "case"-a hypothetical patient with a disease, often modeled on real patients. The students investigate these cases by looking up medical texts on their own and discussing the results of their research in class...