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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 f-cks sake.
student a: i never understand what we’re meant to get from this. f-ck it, i’ll just sit here quietly and nod.

student b: so read the f-cking 6 lines of pbl scenario and lets sit here for 2 hours brainstorming and going through the seven stages of a perfect f-cking 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: sh-t, i didn’t photocopy the notes for this!
5 more definitions
pbl to be used instead of / as well as lol.

means: proper belly laugh.
i pbl’d big time when i saw what happened to steve last night!
pbl

p-ssed by launch

term used in the sport of rowing (a.k.a. crew) for a boat moving so slow relative to the rest of the boats in the race that the launch carrying the race officials p-sses the slow boat to keep up with the pack of compet-tive boats.

boats that pbl usually finish dfl (dead f-cking last).

d-mn dude, our varsity 8 was pbl. wtf went wrong!!??
dude, our varsity 8 was pbl. wtf went wrong!!??
peanut b-tter legs
she has pbl syndrome cause her legs spread like warm peanut b-tter
pouty bottom lip
my cat was h-t by a car pbl. i wanted to shoot my ex-husband but the law won’t allow me to pbl.
preferred beauty look.
that guy over there with the chin strap and bald head, he is totally my pbl… he’s getting me all sorts of hot and bothered.