Clinical classrooms : reflections on the choice of technologies when creating a new blended learning experience

This study analyses how technology supported the roll out of a new teaching approach for medical students, in order to improve engagement with traditional lecture content. A flipped classroom approach was implemented during the teaching of Infectious Diseases and Immunity using a modified Team Based Learning (TBL) learning design. Students first viewed a set of online lectures, followed by a face-to-face session called a Clinical Classroom. In the Clinical Classroom students participated in team based quizzes and discussions. Students were surveyed on six occasions to collect data on how this new approach helped their learning and staff reflected how their assumptions changed over the course of their teaching. Medical students generally valued having their lectures divided into smaller sections and placed online, followed by the clinical classroom. There were some limitations with the technology (such as lack of access to the questions after the class), which will be addressed in future iterations of the course.