Making Students Do the Thinking: Team-Based Learning in a Laboratory Course

Team-based learning (TBL) is a teaching pedagogy for flipping the classroom that moves the focus of the classroom from the instructor conveying course concepts via lecture to the application of concepts by student teams. It has been used extensively in lecture courses; however, there is little evidence of its use in laboratory courses. The purpose of this report is to describe the implementation of TBL in a graduate exercise physiology laboratory course. Using TBL in a graduate laboratory course was very successful and well received by both the students and instructor. Students reported increased content learning, skill development, and retention. They took on the responsibility for learning and were more accountable. The learners drove the process and were guided by the instructor rather than through instructor-centered delivery

ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS OF SOUTH LEBANON

Healthcare wastes (HCW) are produced in any healthcare setting during diagnosis, medical care, operation or injection process or during research studies. The management of such wastes is becoming a great issue since they pose many health risks and environmental damage. Hence, this study was carried out to assess the level of healthcare waste management in hospitals of South Lebanon. A cross sectional study was conducted in five hospitals located in South Lebanon (A, B, C, D and E). The Individualized Rapid Assessment Tool (I-RAT) developed in 2009 as part of the UNDP GEF Global Project on Healthcare Waste, was the instrument used for data collection. A part of the IRAT-HCWM questionnaire was completed through on site observation and the other part of the questionnaire was filled by the nurses, nurse managers, quality and environmental managers and infection control managers in different wards of the hospitals. In general, the five evaluated hospitals showed a good management of healthcare wastes. However, there are still unsatisfactory practices in these hospitals regarding policies, regulations, procedures, safety issues and awareness. Thus, future interventions are required in order to improve the healthcare waste management practices in hospitals of South Lebanon

Spartan Daily, December 11, 1951

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Retention across pedagogies

When teaching, many professors try to increase their students’ retention of the information that is taught. Instructors can incorporate active learning, repeated testing, collaborative testing, and/or corrective feedback into traditional forms of teaching (e.g., lecture), or they can combine all of these components and transform their entire course, such as with Team-Based Learning (TBL). The current study compares retention of course material in TBL, lecture, reading, and control conditions in a lab setting. In the first session, students received one teaching method and learned about an article on whether having pets led to lowered blood pressure. During the second session, students came back to the lab to take a test on what had been taught a week before. The results indicated no difference in test scores between TBL and lecture conditions, but TBL led to higher retention of material than reading and control conditions. Lack of difference between TBL and lecture conditions may have been due to the information being conveyed in multiple forms (e.g., audio, visual). The limited amount of time spent in the lab also may have impacted the effectiveness of TBL because it takes multiple meetings to form a team. Further research may add supplementary learning sessions within a lab setting or compare lecture and TBL within a classroom setting where students are exposed to four components that may increase retention during every class meeting

The Johnsonian April 28, 1969

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