title: Enhancing team-based active learning through hands-on experience with nicotine replacement therapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To enhance tobacco cessation active-learning in an ambulatory care elective course by adding hands-on experience with nicotine replacement therapy to a team-based learning (TBL) session.
  
  
  METHODS
  A hands-on experience that included students chewing a piece of nicotine gum was added to a TBL class session. Student pairs used a skills checklist to evaluate and give peer feedback on appropriate counseling and gum use.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students' scores on a tobacco cessation examination were higher than those of students enrolled in the previous course in which TBL alone had been used. Based on pre- and post-experience survey responses, students' perceptions regarding their abilities to provide tobacco cessation counseling improved. Subjective student comments regarding the experience were positive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Participating in a TBL session that incorporated hands-on experience with nicotine gum in an ambulatory care elective course increased students' confidence in their ability to provide tobacco cessation counseling and provided a unique perspective on the product's characteristics.
authors: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA. afranks@uthsc.edu
authors: Andrea S
authors: AS
authors: Franks
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013339:Students, Pharmacy; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices
keywords: active learning; nicotine gum; team-based learning; tobacco cessation
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