BACKGROUND Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a student-centred active learning method, requiring less faculty time than other active learning methods. While TBL may have pedagogical value, individual studies present inconsistent findings. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of TBL on improving learning outcomes in health professions education. METHODS A peer-reviewed ...

OBJECTIVES Team-based learning (TBL) has been integrated into undergraduate and medical education curricula in many institutions. However, TBL has not been widely introduced into postgraduate medical education. Our study aimed to measure the effect of TBL on promoting learning and teamwork in the setting of pathology residency training. METHODS Four TBL sessions were held and individual and g...

Background: In Ethiopia where there are limited diagnostic facilities and no strong surveillance system, the actual burden and treatment outcome of Tuberculosis lymphadenitis (TBL) is not well known. According to World Health Organization (WHO) treatment outcome is an important indicator of tuberculosis control strategy. Therefore, we conducted this study to describe the proportion and treatmen...

Altintas L, Altintas O, Caglar Y. Modified use of team-based learning in an ophthalmology course for fifth-year medical students. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 46–48, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00129.2013.—Teambased learning (TBL) is an interactive and analytic teaching strategy. TBL is a learner-centered strategy that uses a very structured individual and group accountability process and requires small gr...

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is an important component in a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The difficulty in Chinese G2P conversion is to pick out one correct pronunciation from several candidates according to the context information. By evaluating the distribution of polyphones in a corpus with manually corrected pinyin transcriptions, this paper pointed out that the overall error rate o...

INTRODUCTION The diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL) remains challenging. The routinely used methods (cytology and smear microscopy) have sub-optimal sensitivity. Recently, WHO recommends GeneXpert to be used as the initial diagnostic test in patients suspected of having extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). However, this was a conditional recommendation due to very low-quality evidence...

Background: Team-based learning (TBL) is a method for fostering critical thinking skills in high functioning teams. This study examined optometry student attitudes about TBL. Methods: Students (N=91) completed a 15-item, five-point, Likert-scale survey regarding their attitudes about two consecutive four-month TBL courses. Four peer evaluation items were added to the second survey. Mann Whitney...

Transformation-based learning (TBL) and frequent pattern discovery (FPD) are two popular research paradigms, one from the domain of empirical natural language processing , the second from the eld of data mining. This paper describes how Eric Brill's original TBL algorithm can be improved via incorporation of FPD techniques. The algorithm B-Warmr is presented that upgrades TBL to rst-order logic...