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An essential aspect of Team Based Learning is the group application activity, an opportunity for learners to utilize their knowledge to solve real-life problems.  Even though these application activities are to reflect real-life problems, they tend to be paper-based rather than hands-on.  The facilitators of this focus group are using TBL as an educational approach to train preclinical medical students and have experimented with different hands-on approaches to make group application activities more true-to-life.  The group will share their experience incorporating standardized patients, whole-body simulators, and WebSP into group application activities.  These technologies, their incorporation into application activities, student and faculty feedback on their use, as well as benefits and short-comings will be briefly discussed.  The remainder of the session will be for participants to share their experiences developing group application activities that reflect real-life.   The goal is for all to leave the session with new ideas on how to construct group application activities that are even more beneficial to the learners.