Pediatric Fever Team-Based Learning Module

Abstract

Abstract This resource is a part of a six-module curriculum that uses TBL approaches to teach medical students clinical applications of general pediatric topics. This case is one of six used for third-year medical students during their pediatric clerkship at the University of Michigan during a weekly 2-hour time slot. The six pediatric modules cover topics of asthma, nutrition, fever, abdominal pain, anemia, and pneumonia. This module is on pediatric fever. Included are questions, answer keys, citations for reference articles, and descriptions of how to facilitate and evaluate the TBL exercise. A prior version of this module was previously published in MedEdPORTAL in 2010, but it has been revised in 2015 to reflect updated readings as well as to address student concerns that there were too many readiness questions and too few application questions. After implementation of TBL in our clerkship, National Board of Medical Examiners Pediatric Shelf examination scores improved as did students' scores on an emergency medicine rotation exam question on pediatric fever taken the subsequent academic year.

Keywords

• Fever
• Pediatrics