TEAMLEARNING listserv,
I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and
Neuroscience at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (Lubbock
Texas).
I teach Medical Pharmacology in our School of Medicine to second
year medical students. I also teach in our graduate school to pharmacology
graduate students. I am the course director for a course entitled
"Integration and Analysis" that is taught to second year medical students.
That course uses Team Learning as its course teaching method.
I have used Team Learning for medical school teaching (both in
the Medical Pharmacology course and the Integration and Analysis course) as
well as led several faculty development workshops introducing Team Learning.
I have also help instructors who wanted to use Team Learning in medical
education, resident education (GME) and physicians (CME).
Beyond that, I use Team Learning to 2 of my topics in Medical
Pharmacology (within year 2 curriculum of the medical school). That is I do
not lecture on those two topics. Rather, I write a handout text (about 7
pages for each topic) that the students are responsible for and the learning
session is performed using Team Learning in a 2 hour period. The two topics
are "Principles of the Pharmacology of the Autonomic and Somatic Nervous
Systems" and "Pharmacological Considerations in Treating Geriatric
Patients". I have used TL for the last 2 years for those sessions. I
believe the students fine the sessions useful. Many students are not used to
attending our Med Pharm sessions and these students do not like "having to
attend" the TL sessions. I allowed the grade from each session to be
exchanged with the grade of questions on exams over the same material. By
this method those who did not see any real benefit to the sessions were not
required to attend. Even so attendance at the sessions was about 105 out of
125 students.
Another place TL is used is within our Introduction to Clinical
Medicine course. Here I have led a comparison of TL to PBL. In the academic
years of 2000-01 and 2001-02 3 PBL sessions on geriatric medicine were
introduced into this course (year long course). In the academic years of
2002-03 and 2003-04 those 3 sessions were converted to TL sessions and a
comparison has been made on how the two methods were received by faculty and
students. From the research perspective, we are not yet prepared to comment
on the comparison (i.e. we are still evaluating the data). But I will state
that the TL sessions were successful this year.
From all of these uses of TL I find that TL is a successful learning method.
For us its largest limitation is that as the group size increases, the
easier for any one student to be hidden from the instructors increase. This,
of course, is not unique to TL. The clearest expression of this limitation
is in our students loving TL with the group size is 30-35, liking it when
the group size is 60-65 and accepting it when the group size is 125-130.
This inverse relationship of the enthusiasm to group size seems to capture
it pretty clearly.
Outside Medical School use of TL, I have also been involved in using TL in
resident and CME training. In both of those settings, we are finding TL as
a good alternative method. We hope to begin a small study of TL in CME
training in the near future.
Kitty
Kathryn K. McMahon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street
Lubbock, TX 79430-6592
Phone: 806 743-2425
Fax: 806 743-2744
E-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Kathryn,
Thanks so much for sharing the information about how you are using TBL in
your teaching.
Is there any possibility you would be willing to write-up a short
description of how you use TBL, to share with others via the TBL website?
We want to create a catalog of descriptions of courses in lots of
different subject matters on that website, under "Successful Uses of TBL."
We have tried to make it easy for you to do that be creating a template; all
you have to do is fill in some information for the "bullets" under 6 or 7
topics.
Again, thanks for sharing!
Dee
At 05:20 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and
Neuroscience at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (Lubbock
Texas).
I teach Medical Pharmacology in our School of Medicine to second year
medical students. I also teach in our graduate school to pharmacology
graduate students. I am the course director for a course entitled
"Integration and Analysis" that is taught to second year medical students.
That course uses Team Learning as its course teaching method.
I have used Team Learning for medical school teaching (both in the Medical
Pharmacology course and the Integration and Analysis course) as well as led
several faculty development workshops introducing Team Learning. I have also
help instructors who wanted to use Team Learning in medical education,
resident education (GME) and physicians (CME).
I look forward to the discussion on the listserv.
Kitty McMahon
Kathryn K. McMahon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street
Lubbock, TX 79430-6592
Phone: 806 743-2425
Fax: 806 743-2744
E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Kathryn,
We noticed that you signed up for the Team-Based Learning listserv.
Welcome!
When people do this, we like to find out a little about them. Could you
tell us:
* Where you are?
* What sort of teaching you do?
* Whether you have used TBL before, or are just finding out about it?
Again, glad to have you on the listserv!
Dee Fink
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Mon, 3 May 2004 15:09:09
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L. Dee Fink, Director Phone: 405-325-2323
Instructional Development Program Email: [log in to unmask]
Hester Hall, Room 203 FAX: 405-325-7402
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019 IDP Website: www.ou.edu/idp
<http://www.ou.edu/idp>
President of the POD Network [Professional and Organizational Development]
in Higher Education
Author of: Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Dee Fink's Website: www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm
<http://www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm>
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L. Dee Fink, Director Phone: 405-325-2323
Instructional Development Program Email: [log in to unmask]
Hester Hall, Room 203 FAX: 405-325-7402
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019 IDP Website: www.ou.edu/idp
<http://www.ou.edu/idp>
President of the POD Network [Professional and Organizational Development]
in Higher Education
Author of: Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Dee Fink's Website: www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm
<http://www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm>
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L. Dee Fink, Director Phone: 405-325-2323
Instructional Development Program Email: [log in to unmask]
Hester Hall, Room 203 FAX: 405-325-7402
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019 IDP Website: www.ou.edu/idp
<http://www.ou.edu/idp>
President of the POD Network [Professional and Organizational Development]
in Higher Education
Author of: Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Dee Fink's Website: www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm
<http://www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm>