Twelve tips for effective lecturing in a PBL curriculum

Alam Sher Malik1, Rukhsana Hussain Malik

  • 1Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia. alamshermalik@hotmail.com

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|February 28, 2012
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