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Trainees as teachers in team-based learning
Divy Ravindranath1, Tamara L Gay, Michelle B Riba
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. divyr@med.umich.edu
Objective:
Team-based learning is an active learning modality that is gaining popularity in medical education. The authors studied the effect of using trainees as facilitators of team-based learning sessions.
Methods:
Team-based learning modules were developed and implemented by faculty members and trainees for the third-year medical student clerkship in psychiatry in the 2007-2008 academic year. Evaluation forms were used to elicit student opinions about the team-based learning sessions. Scores for trainee and faculty facilitators were compared using Student's t tests.
Results:
Overall scores were positive, reflecting acceptability of this form of instruction. Eight of nine comparisons showed no difference in students' ratings of faculty versus trainee facilitators. The other comparison showed a modest preference for faculty facilitators.
Conclusion:
Team-based learning modules can be led as effectively by trainees as by faculty members to teach medical students in the classroom setting.
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