In Memoriam:

passed away. He was a pioneer in the development of problem-based learning and assess-ment in medical education. Howard was one of the great teachers, and I am privileged to have had the opportunity to work with him in studying his teaching and to have reported on some of this research in the premier issue of this journal (Hmelo-Silver & Barrows, 2006). Dr. Barrows originally trained as a neurologist but soon began studying medical expertise and became interested in education. In his own words as he introduced himself to a student group, here is how he became interested in PBL: [I] was an innocent academic, full-time, after I finished my residency training and felt that was the career I was going to go into. But I found education to be increasingly more and more interesting all the time. I spent ten years i