Team-Based Learning in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: an Opportunity for Integrated Multidisciplinary Learning and Curricular Focus on the Underserved

Mim Ari; Julie A Venci; Vishnu Kulasekaran; Jennifer E Adams

doi:10.1007/s40670-019-00856-5

Team-Based Learning in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: an Opportunity for Integrated Multidisciplinary Learning and Curricular Focus on the Underserved

Med Sci Educ. 2019 Dec 2;30(1):625-629. doi: 10.1007/s40670-019-00856-5. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Authors

Mim Ari¹, Julie A Venci^{2

3}, Vishnu Kulasekaran^{2

3}, Jennifer E Adams^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO USA.
³ Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO USA.

Abstract

Team-based learning (TBL) offers opportunities to tailor curricula to match specific aims and modalities of innovative medical education models. This paper describes a TBL curriculum developed for a longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) at an urban safety-net hospital. Similar to our LIC students' clinical training experience, which includes simultaneously meeting core competencies across specialties in an underserved setting, our TBL curriculum is multidisciplinary and integrates topics related to caring for vulnerable patients. TBL within our LIC avoids the limitations of teaching content in specialty specific silos, creating a cohesive didactic and clinical education model which is highly rated by our students.

Keywords: Curricular innovation; Longitudinal integrated clerkship; Team-based learning; Undergraduate medical education.