A computer-implemented method includes selecting, by a virtual problem-basedlearning (PBL) system, information indicative of a medical profile of apatient； accessing, bythe virtual PBL system, information indicative of a team of students using thevirtual PBLsystem； generating, by the virtual PBL system and based on the medicalprofile, an medicalPBL schema comprising a medical problem to be solved by the team of students；generating aplurality of sections in the medical PBL schema, with each section promotingsolving of themedical problem, and with each section associated with (i) a private workenvironment for astudent to privately analyze the medical problem, and (ii) a shared, anonymousworkenvironment for the students to view analysis performed by other students insolving themedical problem； and transmitting, to one or more client systems used by thestudentsparticipating in the virtual problem-based learning system, the medical PBLschema.
