Case Method Education on COPD to General Practitioners

In case method a rich narrative describing of a real-life situation (teaching case) is presented, in which the learning group must make a decision or solve a problem. The teaching case provide information, but neither analysis nor conclusions. The analytical work of explaining the relationships among events in the case, identifying options, evaluating choices and predicting the effects of actions is the work done by students during the discussion.

Traditional education in this study means that the teacher mainly speaks to the group. Although short cases may be used for illustration, the main focus is not that the group shall solve problems from a narrative case.