To What Extent Do Faculty and Students Believe that Team-Based Learning Supports Important Goals of Undergraduate Medical Education?

ABSTRACT: The Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) utilizes team-based learning (TBL) heavily in the preclinical curriculum. The purpose of this study was to understand to what extent faculty and students believe the use of TBL supports important goals of undergraduate medical education. Lack of buy-in to the efficacy of TBL by students and/or faculty as well as differences in how faculty and students believe TBL supports the goals of UME would likely decrease the effectiveness of the TBL implementation. A set of fourteen goals for medical education that may be supported by TBL was identified from the TBL literature, interviews with WMed faculty, and focus groups with WMed students. A survey was then developed to ask students and faculty about whether TBL supports

SUBMITTER: Woodcock J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583992 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature