Journal of Nursing & Care

Craig Mellis

Publications

• Research Article
  Team-Based Learning in Health Care Education: Maintaining Key Design Elements
  Author(s): Annette Burgess and Craig MellisAnnette Burgess and Craig Mellis
  
  Introduction: Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Team-based learning (TBL) both provide excellent examples of learner-centred approaches, allowing students to work together to solve professionally relevant problems. Although PBL provides a more traditional example of collaborative learning, TBL has recently gained popularity within health care education. The design of TBL addresses many resource challenges within clinical education including increasing student numbers, and limited availability of teachers who have competing clinical, research and teaching demands. There are also many educational benefits for students that arise from the key design elements of TBL. Purpose: It seems likely that as health care schools attempt to reduce costs, they will move towards TBL implementation. However, published literature, as well as our own experience .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.S1-008

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