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ArticleMedical science educator2021

Three Weeks of Team-Based Leaning Do Not Overload Undergraduate Students.

Alexandre Lafleur, Mathieu Rousseau-Gagnon, Marianne Côté-Maheux, Dave Tremblay-Laroche, Paul René De Cotret, Yves Caumartin

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Article in Medical science educator, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandre LafleurDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, bureau 2476, Quebec, QC G1V0A6 Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2544-6645
Mathieu Rousseau-GagnonDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, bureau 2476, Quebec, QC G1V0A6 Canada.
Marianne Côté-MaheuxDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, bureau 2476, Quebec, QC G1V0A6 Canada.
Dave Tremblay-LarocheDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, bureau 2476, Quebec, QC G1V0A6 Canada.
Paul René De CotretDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, bureau 2476, Quebec, QC G1V0A6 Canada.
Yves CaumartinDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
Université Laval · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextTeam-based learning (TBL) is a flipped-classroom approach requiring students to study before class. Fully flipped curricula usually have fewer in-class hours. However, for practical reasons, several programs implement a few weeks of TBL without adjusting the semester timetable. Students fear that they will be overloaded by the individual and collaborative study hours needed to prepare for TBL.

methodsWe implemented three consecutive weeks of TBL in a 15-week lecture-based course on the renal system. In-class time and assessments were unchanged for all courses. Four hundred fifty-nine first-year undergraduate medical students (229 in 2018; 230 in 2019) were invited to complete weekly logs of their individual and collaborative study hours during lectures and TBL, along with questionnaires on cognitive load and perception of the course. Our program changed from

resultsParticipants (

conclusionsThree weeks of lectures were replaced by TBL without reducing in-class time. Students did not report overload in study hours or in cognitive load. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01314-x.

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Cognitive loadFlipped classroomSelf-directed learning abilitiesTeam-based learningUndergraduate medical studentsWorkload

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PMID34457979
PMCPMC8368536
OpenAlexW3163423918

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