Includes bibliographical references and index.

Team-based learning in health professions education: why is it a 'good fit'? / Dean X. Parmelee -- Fundamental principles and practices of team-based learning / Larry K. Michaelsen and Michael Sweet -- Creating effective team assignments / Larry K. Michaelsen and Michael Sweet -- Improving critical thinking skills in the medical professional with team-based learning / Herb F. Janssen ... [et al.] -- An educational rationale for the use of team-based learning: didactic versus dialectic teaching / Herb F. Janssen ... [et al.] -- Team formation / Kathryn K. McMahon -- Team maintenance / John Pelley and Kathryn K. McMahon -- Facilitator skills / John Pelley and Kathryn K. McMahon -- Peer evaluation / Ruth Levine -- Research and scholarship: team-based learning in health professions education / Paul Haidet, Virginia Schneider, and Gary Onady -- Team-based learning in the pre-medical curriculum: genetics / Dorothy B. Engle

-- Team-based learning in an introductory biochemistry class: a first-time user's perspective / Teresa A. Garrett -- Using team-based learning as a substitute for lectures in a required undergraduate nursing course / Michele C. Clark -- Team-based learning in a physician's assistant program / Bob Philpot -- The use of reading assignments and learning issues as an alternative to anatomy lectures in a team-based learning curriculum / Nagaswami S. Vasan and David O. DeFouw -- Team-based learning in sport and exercise psychology: case studies and concept maps as application exercises / Karla A. Kubitz -- Team-based learning in a psychiatry clerkship / Cheryl S. Al-Mateen -- Reinvigorating a residency program through team-based learning: the experience of a physical medicine and rehabilitation program / Michael E. Petty and Kevin M. Means