Trainees as teachers in team-based learning.
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.


CONCLUSIONS
Team-based learning modules can be led as effectively by trainees as by faculty members to teach medical students in the classroom setting.
Ravindranath
Divy
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. divyr@med.umich.edu
Gay
Tamara L
TL
Riba
Michelle B
MB
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003479:Curriculum; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008824:Michigan; D017145:Models, Educational; D010379:Peer Group; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching