title: Using a Team-Based Learning Approach at National Meetings to Teach Residents Genomic Pathology.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Accumulating data suggest that team-based learning (TBL) is more effective than lecture-based teaching strategies. Educational sessions at national meetings, however, tend to be lecture-based, and unlike most examples of TBL, involve participants who do not know each other or the instructor.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We evaluated a 1-day TBL genomic pathology workshop for residents held at 3 national meetings.
  
  
  METHODS
  A committee of experts developed the workshop. Prior to attending, participants were provided access to readings and asked to answer preparation questions. Each of the 4 modules within the workshop consisted of a 60-minute TBL activity flanked by 15- to 30-minute preactivity and postactivity lectures. We used surveys to acquire participant evaluation of the workshop.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 2013-2014, 86 pathology residents from 61 programs participated in 3 workshops at national meetings. All workshops were well received, with over 90% of attendees indicating that they would recommend them to other residents and that the material would help them as practicing pathologists. An incremental approach facilitated decreasing faculty presence at the workshops: the first 2 workshops had 7 faculty each (1 facilitator for each team and 1 circulating faculty member), while the final workshop involved only 2 faculty for 6 teams. For this final session, participants agreed that circulating faculty provided adequate support. Participant "buy-in" (requiring completion of a preworkshop survey) was critical in enabling a TBL approach.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results demonstrate that TBL is a feasible and effective strategy for teaching genomic medicine that is acceptable to pathology residents at national meetings.
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Haspel
authors.forename: Asma M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Grace C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D023281:Genomics / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D007858:Learning; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires