title: JGME-ALiEM Hot Topics in Medical Education: Analysis of a Multimodal Online Discussion About Team-Based Learning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional method that is being increasingly incorporated in health professions education, although use in graduate medical education (GME) has been more limited.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To curate and describe themes that emerged from a virtual journal club discussion about TBL in GME, held across multiple digital platforms, while also evaluating the use of social media in online academic discussions.
  
  
  METHODS
  TheJournal of Graduate Medical Education(JGME) and the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine blog facilitated a weeklong, open-access, virtual journal club on the 2015JGMEarticle "Use of Team-Based Learning Pedagogy for Internal Medicine Ambulatory Resident Teaching." Using 4 stimulus questions (hosted on a blog as a starting framework), we facilitated discussions via the blog, Twitter, and Google Hangouts on Air platforms. We evaluated 2-week web analytics and performed a thematic analysis of the discussion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The virtual journal club reached a large international audience as exemplified by the blog page garnering 685 page views from 241 cities in 42 countries. Our thematic analysis identified 4 domains relevant to TBL in GME: (1) the benefits and barriers to TBL; (2) the design of teams; (3) the role of assessment and peer evaluation; and (4) crowdsourced TBL resources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The virtual journal club provided a novel forum across multiple social media platforms, engaging authors, content experts, and the health professions education community in a discussion about the importance, impediments to implementation, available resources, and logistics of adopting TBL in GME.
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Riddell
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Patocka
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sherbino
mesh_terms: D057218:Blogging; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching