Pediatric Abdominal Pain and Mass Team-Based Learning Module

Abstract This resource is a part of a six-module curriculum that uses TBL approaches to teach medical students clinical applications of general pediatric topics. This case is one of six used for third-year medical students during their pediatric clerkship at the University of Michigan during a weekly 2-hour time slot. The six pediatric modules cover topics of asthma, nutrition, fever, abdominal pain and mass, anemia, and pneumonia. This module is on pediatric abdominal pain and mass. Included are questions, answer keys, citations for reference articles, and descriptions of how to facilitate and evaluate a TBL exercise. A prior version of this module was previously published in MedEdPORTAL in 2010, but it has been revised in 2015 to reflect updated readings as well as to address student concerns that there were too many readiness questions and too few application questions. After implementation of TBL in our clerkship, National Board of Medical Examiners Pediatric Shelf examination scores improved as did students' scores on a pediatric asthma observed clinical skills examination and a pediatric fever question on their emergency medicine examination administered the subsequent year.