An Interdisciplinary Team-Based Learning Experience in Clinical Ethics

An innovative home-based interdisciplinary service-learning experience.

The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues. Students are mentored by UNC clinical faculty and retir...

Team-based learning and ethics education in nursing.

This report describes the use of team-based learning concepts in an undergraduate nursing applied ethics course using established reporting guidelines. Team-based learning relies on actively engaging students in the learning process through small-group activities that facilitate the development of skills, including concept analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving. Students are divided i...

An interdisciplinary learning experience through applied clinical practice with community volunteers.

Enhancing Students’ Learning Experience through Interdisciplinary Research

This paper describes an approach of enriching computer science & engineering education by engaging students in an interdisciplinary research project. The research project is put forth by a join interdisciplinary research group that consists of students and faculty members from College of Computer Science & Engineering and College of Nursing. One of the goals of this interdisciplinary collaborat...

Comparison of Rehabilitation Students’ Learning in Neurology through Lecture with Team-Based Learning (TBL)

Introduction: Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured form of cooperative learning, which aims to increase students’ skill of access to higher-level of cognitive learning using individual knowledge in a team. In this study, rehabilitation students’ learning was compared through the two methods of lecture and TBL for neurology course. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried on 70 B...