1. The science of medicine. The art of healing.

2. What is Team-Based Learning
What is Team-Based Learning? Dean Parmelee MD Director, Educational Scholarship and Program Development Office of Medical Education

3. What does it take?

4. What does it take?

5. Definition
Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a teacher-directed strategy for incorporating small-group active participation in large-group educational settings.

6. Components
Team-Based Learning sequences the learning:
3. APPLICATION
Learners APPLY the knowledge to increasingly complex problems
2. READINESS ASSURANCE Learners demonstrate (individually and in small groups) readiness to use desired knowledge
1. PREPARATION
Learners acquire desired knowledge

7. Readiness Assurance Phase
Transform Groups to Teams
Individual accountability promotes preparation
Group accountability promotes effective participation
Teams learn how to make the ‘best’ decisions

8. Pulls a Group Together Quickly

9. The 4 S’s Application Phase Same Problem Specific Answer
Significant Problem
Simultaneous Reporting
Problems that require the brainpower of the whole team to solve
One BEST option, but others are ‘possible’
Teams teaching teams

10. Options for Group Application Exercise
MCQ's – (NBME-like)
Video Clips
Images
“Rolling Case”
Focused written response
‘Gallery Walk’

11. 1. CONTEXT, GOAL, OBJS – What do you want them to be able to do?
Backward Design
4. PREPARATION
Be specific, but know they will learn more to not let their team down.
3. READINESS ASSURANCE
Truly foundational to the Group Application Exercise.
2. GROUP APPLICATION EXERCISE The answers cannot be ‘looked up.’ Only come from discussion.
1. CONTEXT, GOAL, OBJS – What do you want them to be able to do?

12. After you have your Group Application Exercise (GAE)
What do they need to know to solve the problems?
Be specific with your objectives and assignment.
The Readiness Assurance process must be foundational to the Group Application Exercise

13. Words to the Wise…TIPS
Design, detailing planning using backward design
Prep materials, set up space
Form Teams strategically – 5-7 is ideal;
3 teams minimal
Application Exercise – pushes the envelope

14. Learn More…Great Resources
Video clips, bibliography, listserve,
scholarship opportunities, learning community
Annual Meeting of TBLC
12 Tips for Doing Effective Team-Based Learning (TBL),
Parmelee & Michaelsen. Medical Teacher, 2010; 32;