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Article: Peer-to-peer clinical teaching by medical students in the formal curriculum
Title | Peer-to-peer clinical teaching by medical students in the formal curriculum |
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Issue Date | 3-Oct-2023 |
Publisher | Singapore: Centre for Medical Education National University of Singapore |
Citation | The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2023, v. 8, n. 4, p. 13-22 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Introduction: Medical students have long provided informal, structured academic support for their peers in parallel with the institution’s formal curriculum, demonstrating a high degree of motivation and engagement for peer teaching. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to examine the perspectives of participants in a pilot peer teaching programme on the effectiveness and feasibility of adapting existing student-initiated peer bedside teaching into formal bedside teaching. Methods: Study participants were senior medical students who were already providing self-initiated peer-led bedside clinical teaching, clinicians who co-taught bedside clinical skills teaching sessions with the peer teachers and junior students allocated to the bedside teaching sessions led by peer teachers. Qualitative data were gathered via evaluation form, peer teacher and clinician interviews, as well as the observational field notes made by the research assistant who attended the teaching sessions as an independent observer. Additionally, a single Likert-scale question on the evaluation form was used to rate teaching effectiveness. Results: All three peer teachers, three clinicians and 12 students completed the interviews and/or questionnaires. The main themes identified were teaching effectiveness, teaching competency and feasibility. Teaching effectiveness related to the creation of a positive learning environment and a tailored approach. Teaching competency reflected confidence or doubts about peer-teaching, and feasibility subthemes comprised barriers and facilitators. Conclusion: Students perceived peer teaching effectiveness to be comparable to clinicians’ teaching. Clinical peer teaching in the formal curriculum may be most feasible in a hybrid curriculum that includes both peer teaching and clinician-led teaching with structured training and coordinated timetabling. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338703 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.219 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chen, Julie Yun | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lam, Tai Pong | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hung, Ivan Fan Ngai | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, Albert Chi Yan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chin, Weng-Yee | - |
dc.contributor.author | See, Christopher | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tsang, Joyce Pui Yan | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:30:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:30:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-03 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2023, v. 8, n. 4, p. 13-22 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2424-9335 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338703 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Medical students have long provided informal, structured academic support for their peers in parallel with the institution’s formal curriculum, demonstrating a high degree of motivation and engagement for peer teaching. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to examine the perspectives of participants in a pilot peer teaching programme on the effectiveness and feasibility of adapting existing student-initiated peer bedside teaching into formal bedside teaching.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Study participants were senior medical students who were already providing self-initiated peer-led bedside clinical teaching, clinicians who co-taught bedside clinical skills teaching sessions with the peer teachers and junior students allocated to the bedside teaching sessions led by peer teachers. Qualitative data were gathered via evaluation form, peer teacher and clinician interviews, as well as the observational field notes made by the research assistant who attended the teaching sessions as an independent observer. Additionally, a single Likert-scale question on the evaluation form was used to rate teaching effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> All three peer teachers, three clinicians and 12 students completed the interviews and/or questionnaires. The main themes identified were teaching effectiveness, teaching competency and feasibility. Teaching effectiveness related to the creation of a positive learning environment and a tailored approach. Teaching competency reflected confidence or doubts about peer-teaching, and feasibility subthemes comprised barriers and facilitators.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Students perceived peer teaching effectiveness to be comparable to clinicians’ teaching. Clinical peer teaching in the formal curriculum may be most feasible in a hybrid curriculum that includes both peer teaching and clinician-led teaching with structured training and coordinated timetabling.</p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Singapore: Centre for Medical Education National University of Singapore | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Asia Pacific Scholar | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Peer-to-peer clinical teaching by medical students in the formal curriculum | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.29060/TAPS.2023-8-4/OA3093 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 13 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 22 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2424-9270 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2424-9270 | - |