Team-Based Learning in Emergency Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Medical Student Satisfaction

Author(s): Rabeb Mbarek, Haifa Bradai, Nabil Chebbi, Lotfi Boukadida, Chebili Naoufel

Background:

Team learning is relatively new to medical education. It was integrated into the preclinical programme of a medical school in 2002, and intoour faculty of medicine of Sousse, Tunisia, in 2017. The aim of this study was to assess the satisfactions of teamwork with this method of "team-based learning" by medical students in the fourth medical year for the topic of disaster management in emergency medicine.

Method:

This was a cross-sectional analytic study describing the first implementation of critical medicine team-based learning among fourth undergraduate medical students in the faculty of medicine of Sousse, Tunisia, during the 2022-2023 university year after institutional educational development committee approval. An anonymous selfadministered questionnaire on their attitudes and satisfactions of team learning was drawn upfor all the fourth-year medical students. Data were analysed using SPSS 20.0.

Results:

Significant attitudinal satisfaction was found in the areas of professional development, satisfaction with the team experience, satisfaction with peer review, the impact of the team on the quality of learning and the impact of the team on clinical reasoning skills.

Conclusion:

This study demonstrates the students' positive attitude towards teamwork, their sense of professional development, and their comfort and satisfaction with peer assessment.