Summer evening school of TBL lessons

The teachers prepared three lessons for them, in which all elements of collaborative learning using the Team-Based Learning method were fully utilized, with the following topics. (i) Introduction to psychiatry with a case of depressive syndrome; (ii) Coagulation disease with pulmonary embolism; (iii) Liver and bile ducts diseases with hepatic failure. Students prepared for the teaching thanks to pre-class reading materials. They evaluated their preparation through an individual iRAT test (individual Readiness Assessment Test) and then defended their opinions in a team test tRAT (team Readiness Assessment Test) with a follow-up discussion led by the lesson facilitator. After that, the lesson continued with an application exercise represented by a case of a virtual patient, in which the individual teams solved various issues and tasks associated with differential diagnosis, clinical reasoning and individual decisions in the therapeutic procedure of the specific patient. Besides the facilitator as the guide and the main initiator of the discussion, students had the advice and opinions of the content expert, who was also the author of the pre-class reading material, test questions and application exercise.
After each lesson, students provided feedback in a voluntary questionnaire survey, which will be used in a pedagogical research carried out at the Center for the Development of Clinical Competences of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University.