Medical students' attitudes about team-based learning in a pre-clinical curriculum.

Background: Team-Based Learning is relatively new in medical education. Team-Based Learning was integrated into one medical school's pre-clinical curriculum in 2002.

Purpose: This study compared how medical students' attitudes about the Team-Based Learning process changed between the first and second year of medical school.

Active learning in a Year 2 pathology curriculum.

Purpose: Team-based learning (TBL) has been successfully used in non-medical curricula, but its effectiveness in medical education has not been studied extensively. We evaluated the impact of TBL on the academic performance of Year 2 medical students at Wright State University by comparing this active learning strategy against a traditional method of case-based group discussion (CBGD).

Methods: A prospective crossover design assigned 83 Year 2 medical students to either CBGD or TBL for 8 pathology modules in the systems-based curriculum.