calendar May 14, 2025, 11 AM EDT

Implementing TBL for Integration of Basic Medical Sciences

Discover how to design integrated TBL sessions that connect core disciplines and foster meaningful student discussions.

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About this event

Join us for a 60-minute interactive workshop where a physiology educator (Dr. Akshata Naik) and a biochemistry educator (Dr. Jane Newman) share their strategies for creating an integrated TBL session for medical students. This session aims to provide a practical framework to create horizontally integrated TBL advanced prep materials, RATs, and application exercises. At the end of the workshop, educators will be able to develop innovative teaching modalities that integrate core disciplines and create TBL approaches for enriched student discussions.

Learning objectives

At the end of this online workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Define horizontal and vertical integration.
  2. Describe a process for implementing integration into a TBL.
  3. Plan potential integration steps for topics of interest.

Online Events Details

Chicago

Chicago

calendar-1 May 14, 10:00 AM CDT
New York

New York

calendar May 14, 11:00 AM EDT
London

London

calendar-2 May 14, 4:00 PM BST
Singapore

Singapore

calendar-3 May 14, 11:00 PM SGT

About the facilitators

Dr. Akshata Naik

Dr. Akshata Naik, a medical educator at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, earned her PhD in Physiology from Wayne State University in 2019. Recognized for her teaching excellence, she received the 2024 William Galey Scholarship Award from the American Physiological Society and IAMSE’s faculty travel award. Passionate about innovation and diversity in medical education, Dr. Naik has published in leading journals such as Endocrinology and Medical Science Educator and is dedicated to training learners at all levels.

 

 

 

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Dr. Jane Newman

Dr. Jane Newman is an assistant professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in the Department of Foundational Medical Studies. She teaches biochemistry to medical students in their preclinical years. Her medical education research focus is on integrating biochemistry topics with other disciplines and biochemistry education through game-based learning. Dr. Newman received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry from Indiana University studying biochemical mechanisms of transcription factors in quorum sensing systems within disease-causing Vibrio bacteria.

 
 
 
 
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What our workshop participants say

What our workshop participants say

I work in the administration with tasks like adapting the syllabus to the teaching and assessment so it is very valuable to understand how TBL works in real life to be able to transform it to a legal language.

Carolina Carneck

Karolinska Institute, Administrative Officer

Being on the learner side, exploring how learners would utilize the platform were the most valuable aspect of the workshop.

Shikara Poblete

University of Santo Tomas, Faculty - Civil Engineering

Learning from the students' perspective is the most valuable aspect of these TBL-styled workshops.

Holly Turula

Western Michigan University, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Science

This was valuable to me as a refresher since I have not tried to run an online TBL since spring 2020. It was also valuable to network with people from other institutions and hear how they are using TBL in their curriculum.

Rachel Hopkins

SUNY Upstate Medical University, Associate Professor, Medicine

We have been doing TBL for a number of years and I think these workshops gave us a better idea of what we are doing right, what we are doing wrong, as well as just raising our game in general. Also, we put together our TBL sessions in an ad hoc manner, but having tutors that have done hundreds of these sessions discuss the reasoning behind the way they do things gave me a lot to think about. We formally focused on the mechanics of running TBL rather than just trying to "put together a case". It just feels more structured and focused now than it did before the workshop.

Ronald Mackenzie, PhD

Texas McGovern Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Research

Very well organized workshop, covered many questions about how online TBL works, emphasized issues/problems in moving online

Kevin Krane

Tulane University, Vice Deam Professor, Academic Affairs Medicine

Testimonials

Dr. Julie M Estis
Dr. Julie M Estis Associate Professor, Speech Therapy University of South Alabama
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“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”
Dr. Julie M Estis
Dr. Julie M Estis Associate Professor, Speech Therapy University of South Alabama
It was a great expirience!
Star Fill Star Fill Star Fill Star 6 Star 6
“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”
Dr. Julie M Estis
Dr. Julie M Estis Associate Professor, Speech Therapy University of South Alabama
It was a great expirience!
Star Fill Star Fill Star Fill Star 6 Star 6
“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”
It was a great expirience!
Star Fill Star Fill Star Fill Star 6 Star 6
“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”
It was a great expirience!
Star Fill Star Fill Star Fill Star 6 Star 6
“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”
It was a great expirience!
Star Fill Star Fill Star Fill Star 6 Star 6
“Outstanding tool for face-to-face, web-blended and fully online TBL courses! We’ve been using InteDashboard across several TBL classes at the University of South Alabama and are consistently impressed with the tool as well as the exceptional support from the team. We look forward to increasing utilization of InteDashboard through our campus-wide project.”