Case-based Learning: Its Importance in Medical Student Education

Abstract

In an era when medical education is changing to serve the educational needs of Generation Z/Millennial learners, there is a desire to shift from traditional lecture-based teaching to more active learning, which has been shown to more effectively engage medical students (1,2). As graduate medical education has begun to employ more active forms of learning, it is important for radiology curricula to engage medical students similarly, in ways that are most beneficial to their learning. Radiologists, with ever-increasing workloads, research expectations, and administrative duties, have less time and fewer resources with which to meet the needs of today's learners, particularly medical students.