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. 2017 Feb;9(1):102-108.
doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-16-00067.1.

JGME-ALiEM Hot Topics in Medical Education: Analysis of a Multimodal Online Discussion About Team-Based Learning

Jeff Riddell, Catherine Patocka, Michelle Lin, Jonathan Sherbino

JGME-ALiEM Hot Topics in Medical Education: Analysis of a Multimodal Online Discussion About Team-Based Learning

Jeff Riddell et al. J Grad Med Educ. 2017 Feb.

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: The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) and the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine blog facilitated a weeklong, open-access, virtual journal club on the 2015 JGME article "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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: Dr Lin is editor-in-chief of the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine website.

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Geographic Distribution of Visitors to the Blog Website for the Online Journal Club Note: The top 10 visits by city include: Shanghai (32 views), Ottawa (24), New York (19), Boston (18), undetermined (17), Calgary (13), Toronto (13), Voronezh (13), Hamilton (12), and Chicago (11).
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