Hi John
 
I have recently used TBL to run an interprofessional session introducing medical, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students to the basic concepts of safe patient care. Each uniprofessional class accessed a website that we created (www.patientsafetycourse.com) and the instructors from the 3 courses involved designed uniprofessional activities around the patient case (there's one elaborate patient case and then descriptions of several other patient scenarios) related to the course content (not necessarily patient safety). Then, all three classes came together for what I have called a "team learning event" where we created interprofessional teams and did application excercises around patient safety based on the "cases" they now all knew. Confused yet?
 
Anyway, our first iteration of this (in April this year) went really well and I am happy to share any specifics you may want if you email me directly.
 
Lindsay
 

Dr. Lindsay Davidson
Associate Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedics
Phase III Director and Phase IIA MSK Course Chair
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
(613)544-9626 FAX (613)545-3338
 


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Colleagues,

 

I would like to tap into the collective wisdom and experience on team-based learning for interprofessional education (IPE).  I have local collaborative opportunities to develop IPE for health profession students (medicine, pharmacy, nursing, social work, etc.).  I think that team-based learning would be ideal for IPE as an important thrust of health profession education is to promote delivery of team-based care.  Why not start with team-based learning of team-based care?  I welcome your advice and experiences in this endeavor.  One ongoing project is the development of interprofessional case materials for health professions training utilizing sanitized clinical material from our hospital system.  Faculty members and students from various local health academic units are collaborating in this project to develop the case material.  I think introducing TBL into the case design would be a natural fit.

 

Thanks.

 

John

 

John C. Luk, M.D.

Assistant Dean for Regional Medical Education

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

UTMB School of Medicine

1313 Red River Ste 120

Austin, TX 78701

office (512) 324-7860

fax (512) 324-7988