Admissions Interview Day HIPAA TBL

Abstract

Abstract This resource serves as an experiential introduction to team-based learning (TBL) on admissions interview day for applicants to health care profession schools that use this active-learning modality in their curriculum. One of the recognized barriers associated with the use of TBL is learner buy-in. This is largely due to the fact that passive classroom learning (such as lectures) still predominates most undergraduate curricula. Nevertheless, current wisdom indicates that if learners are exposed early to TBL and have repeated experiences with the method, their attitudes improve. In other words, as learners gain more experience with TBL they become more comfortable with the process. Since our preclinical medical curriculum has been designed to include TBL as one of the major active-learning modalities, we developed this resource to provide an early experience to begin the process of circumventing this barrier, and also to provide our potential learners with an experiential glimpse of what it would be like to attend our new medical school. This TBL module has been successfully deployed more than 80 times over three admissions cycles. Slight revisions of content and delivery have been made since its inception.

Keywords

• Editor's Choice
• TBL
• Team-Based Learning
• HIPAA
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• Admissions