Hi Linda This is where interprofessional education and TBL coincide nicely. As a TBL user, I understand that the more rigid TBL format can't work at the bedside, but many of the teamwork elements can be adapted and used in small interprofessional group patient care planning or debriefing sessions, done at the bedside or in nearby conference rooms with preceptors as facilitators. I would point to the exemplary work of the University of Toronto, Centre for IPE, which has pioneered some very effective ways of utilizing hospital staff as preceptors and facilitators for small interprofessional student teams within the hospital. Here is one useful link: http://ipe.utoronto.ca/initiatives/ipc/implc/supertoolkit.html Hope this helps. I look forward to reading what others suggest. Regards, Gary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Kapelus MBA DSP Professor, Interprofessional Education Faculty of Community Services and Health Sciences George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology 200 King St. E., Room 721 Toronto, ON M5T 2T9 Tel: (416) 415-5000 Ext 3508 Cell: (416) 450-8083 http://www.georgebrown.ca/healthsciences/ipe.aspx<https://oldmail.georgebrown.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.georgebrown.ca/healthsciences/ipe.aspx> ________________________________ From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Linda L Krypel [[log in to unmask]] Sent: November 3, 2011 3:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Experiential education - how can we build upon didactic use of TBL? Hi folks, Before I ask my questions, I need to provide a little background for those of you unfamiliar with pharmacy education. A pharmacy student's entire 6th year of the curriculum is spent outside the classroom in experiential education rotating through various clinics, hospitals, community pharmacy and other sites similar to a resident physician. These various 'rotations' have also been called clerkships or advanced practice experiences. Students attend rounds with physicians, review drug therapy and make recommendations, educate patients other healthcare professionals and complete a myriad of other activities. Experiential faculty or non-faculty preceptors oversee these students. I am fairly familiar with TBL, since this spring will be my fourth year using TBL in the classroom. However, I have been asked to develop a talk regarding how experiential faculty or non-faculty preceptors could build upon the skills students develop in our TBL-based classes during their didactic years. Often there are only 2-3 students at any given time assigned to experiential faculty (or preceptors). Additionally, 'bedside' consults do not easily fit into a traditional didactic TBL format. Given the small number of students available to form a team, and understanding that the medical conditions and medications change constantly due to a potentially daily changing patient base, I am having a very hard time envisioning activities that could be utilized. I have spoken/met with a few list serve members, and other than replicating what is done in the classroom on a much smaller scale, I haven't been able to get my brain wrapped around anything different. Is there anyone out there already doing something either in the health care arena or some other field? What ideas do you have for continuing and building upon the team-learning skills or benefits in an experiential setting? Thanks in advance, Linda Linda Krypel, RPh, PharmD, FAPhA Professor of Clinical Sciences Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences 117 Fitch Hall Des Moines, IA 50311 Office: 515-271-2762