Team-based learning.

Abstract

In this issue of the Journal , Brandler and colleagues1 describe the use of team-based learning (TBL) in postgraduate pathology training and education, as part of our series on education and training in pathology and laboratory medicine. As noted by the authors, this approach has been around for many years but only recently has begun to make its way into postgraduate medical education in a formal manner. Informal TBL has, of course, been around for hundreds of years; common examples include ward rounds, laboratory rounds, interdisciplinary meetings, tumor boards, and clinical/pathologic case conferences. The questions, then, are why has it taken so long to make TBL a formal method of teaching and …